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...Joan of Arcs or Molly Pitchers in the annals of Japan. Even the brilliant Lady Murasaki, who wrote the famed Tale of Genji early in the 11th century, felt it necessary to conceal her accomplishments. The only heroic-sized woman known to the Japanese is the legendary Empress Jingo, who supposedly conquered Korea in A.D. 200-but Koreans indignantly assert that absence of records proves she never existed. Until 1923, Japanese law declared that "women, children and mental defectives shall not be associated with political activities...
...England's New Forest while strolling with Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey before World War I. At all times T.R. reserved his deepest contempt and his deepest rage for "the mollycoddle vote," "miserable little snobs" and "solemn reformers of the tomfool variety." They yelled back "Showoff!", "Blow-hard!", "Jingo!", "Cad!" T.R. was constantly embroiled in controversy and debate, and he reveled...
...ployer of anti-lifemanship, a sociologically irresponsible escapist. In a typical passage, Purcell complains that "The very great improvement in the living conditions of the working classes" after World War I was "of no concern" to Eliot-which is about as irrelevant as panning Shakespeare for being a jingo...
...Harvard-Army football game. The cadets, marching solemnly over Anderson Bridge to the Stadium, presented a marked contrast to the motley Harvard rooters. But the CRIMSON was not alarmed: "the playing field this afternoon should give ample proof that the men of West Point offer no inherent threat of jingo militarism against the world...
...Rudyard Kipling and his British Empire, but there are those less happy about it than, say, Jawaharlal Nehru and the editors of the Nation. Rudyard Kipling was a lowbrow genius, the classic case of a jingo word juggler whose skill brought out the heaviest sneers in the faces of more civilized but not necessarily more talented...