Word: kari
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well do hari-kari...
...that these idealists have considered the harm they are causing? The benefits of teaching real English are obvious enough, but a mere statement of the disadvantages will dissuade those who would callously knife a tradition of American humor. Deprived of their livelihood, a score of humorists will commit hari-kari, with a jokebook in their hands and a smile on their lips. The American nation, grossly abused in its privilege of laughing at the "furriner's" English, will hasten the Pacific world into war. With Irwin as general, a brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from...
...Japanese Embassy in Paris waxed exceedingly indignant over a report that the death of Prince Narihisa Kitashirakawa, who was recently killed in an automobile accident in France, necessitated some Japanese noble committing hara-kari -suicide. The late Prince was a brother-in-law of the Mikado, and, as the Councellor of the Embassy explained, the ancient rite of hara-kari is carried out by the Samurais only in the event of the death of the Mikado; lesser members of the royal family do not receive such homage. On April 29, 1909, Prince Kitashirakawa married the Mikado's second sister...
...decides to go secretly back to Japan. Just as he is on the point of leaving, however, he feels an inner urge to see his wife once more. He steals into her bedroom, strangles its occupant, and, rhetorically celebrating the meeting of mother? and child in heaven, commits hara-kari. The acting is uncommonly good...
...leading male part will be filled by J. W. D. Seymour '17, who will play the role of "Jim Storey", a youthful lawyer; Mr. Seymour has had two one-act plays produced in Baltimore, and recently created the part of "Kari" in "Eyvind of the Hills", which was recently given in New York City...