Word: japanned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese take the word "dear" literally, even at the start of a letter. Last week General MacArthur took care to begin his letter to Japan's Premier with a curt "Mr. Prime Minister...
...letter was as barren of endearments as the salutation. Shigeru Yoshida's Government, it said, had better take prompt steps to tighten Japan's economy and wipe out its black markets, or it could expect no help from the Allies...
...pound Davis, probably the steadiest man in the line all season, won an honorable mention for All-American in 1944 but was in Japan as an ensign for the 1945 campaign. Last fall he played more minutes than any other man on the Crimson squad. He played two years of high school football for Poly Prep in Brooklyn before coming to Cambridge with the Navy V-12 unit. He was mentioned on several all-city teams during his high school gridiron career...
...Japanese citizen as well as a British subject. He lived in Tokyo until he was 18. Then he went to high school in Atlantic City, to the University of Edinburgh, and wound up in Malaya as a British intelligence officer with the Indian Army. The next time he saw Japan was as a prisoner of war. He started his novel in Bibai Prison Camp...
Though Wynd obviously should know Japan at firsthand, Black Fountains reads as though it might have been written in a U.S. public library. The characters are stock and wooden, fitted out with set speeches: Heroine Omi with her U.S. education, her once-liberal parents who have swallowed the new Japanese nationalist ideology, the old housekeeper turned spy. Wynd also spells out a message: there are lots of good Japanese but they cannot effectively buck the bad ones. Says Heroine Omi: "God grant that the Americans see this! . . . This country has to be cleaned. We haven't the strength...