Word: kobes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and Nagasaki Japanese antiquaries and curio dealers have come to know a U. S. citizen with white hair and glittering spectacles who approaches them smiling politely, holds his finger tips close together and cries over & over "Chiisai! Chiisai! Small! Small!" It is Jules Charbneau of Mount Clemens, Mich, on one of his round-the-world trips searching for minuscule knickknacks. Many collections of little things, from the elder J. P. Morgan's miniatures to Queen Mary's doll house, are better known and of greater artistic worth, but none is larger than the Jules Charbneau...
...Arrested in Kobe was Mark A. Pierce, a substantial citizen of Los Angeles and onetime police commissioner, on a holiday in Japan. As his tourist ship was sailing through the Inland Sea, a detective had seen him taking photographs, which when developed showed a passing warship. He was severely questioned ten hours a day for eleven days, taken to a hotel at night. Japanese police thought they had hit on something real when they found in Pierce's baggage a scroll showing that Mark Pierce is entitled to be called "Colonel" in the State of Kentucky. Other suspicious facts...
...flower. The typhoon, striking at 60 m. p. h. and increasing to 120 m. p. h., headed straight into the dragon's throat where are the great tea plantations, the textile and munitions factories of Japan's second largest city, Osaka, the great port of Kobe, and ancient imperial Kyoto. These are three of Japan's five biggest cities...
...gone to school. It tumbled down 77 primary schools in Osaka Prefecture, crushing 310 school children to death. It tugged down small skyscrapers. It swept away wood-&-paper houses like rubbish. An hour later it was gone, northward, but behind it came a tidal wave, to flood Osaka, Kobe and the carpet port of Sakai. It swept over a leper hospital and drowned 200, over an insane asylum and drowned 50. It tossed the 4,000-ton Batavia Maru onto a wharf, jammed the Ural Maru up a stone-curbed canal and drove the Zuiho Maru into the Customs House...
...novelty makers on learning of Prince George's engagement to Princess Marina (TIME, Sept. 10) promptly began stamping out at Osaka last week "George and Marina badges" to be peddled in London at the time of the wedding, date not yet announced. Said the leading Japanese bunting jobber of Kobe, "We shipped to Australia several weeks ago a very large proportion of the flags and bunting they will use to greet the Duke of Gloucester" (see above...