Word: jewells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hirohito was not crowned. Instead, upon his father's death in 1926 he assumed protection of Japan's three Sacred Treasures: The Sword which commands "Be Brave!" The Jewel which says "Enlighten thyself!" and the Most Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Omikami which enjoins "Know thyself...
...with Victorian furniture and knickknacks crowded every mantel, sure to be in evidence was a vase or two of "Tiffany Favrile Glass," heavy and iridescent. This glass was the invention of Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of the late Charles Lewis Tiffany who founded Manhattan's famed Tiffany & Co., jewelers, silversmiths & stationers. Although Glassman Tiffany is a vice president, assistant treasurer and director of the jewel firm, painting and glasswork have been his chief interests...
...Infanta could not put her hand on the jewels at the moment. During the War she had sent them from Paris to Madrid for safe keeping. They were still in a trunk in a relative's house. She wrote for the trunk immediately. Last week it arrived at her Paris house. The Infanta opened it, pulled out shawl after shawl, half a dozen old umbrellas. But not a jewel did she find...
...heaps of what had once been six seated Caciques. In Professor Caso's plain archeologist's terms: "The long years had dealt severely with them. . . . Their skeletons had virtually disintegrated during the many decades since they had been placed there." At burial the warriors had been sheathed with jewel-clotted gold. For each face there was a gold-&-turquoise mask. Extraordinary objects of gold, silver, copper, jade, turquoise, coral, pearl, nacre, rock crystal, alabaster, lay ranged about. Trophy of one warrior was a human skull, richly encrusted with turquoise and shell. In the hollow of the nose was a flint...
...many miles of surrounding territory plus the right to build a railroad through Shantung Province. In 1914, Japan's first act as one of the Allies was to besiege Tsingtao. It was defended with extreme gallantry by the German garrison, for the Kaiser had bombastically called it "the jewel of my heart." Japan held Tsingtao through the War and after. But its attempt to stay out the 99-year lease was solemnly thwarted by the Great Powers at the Washington Conference (1921-22) and by the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1922 when Japan solemnly swore to leave Tsingtao alone...