Word: lording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were other signs that the Japanese proposed to lord it permanently in Peiping. Though public primary and high schools should have prepared to open last week, they were kept closed until all anti-Japanese propaganda could be excised from the textbooks. One hundred and sixty hand-picked Chinese police began laboriously to learn the Japanese language. The Peiping Chamber of Commerce opened Japanese language classes to make it easier for Chinese shopkeepers to sell things to their "new masters." There was even rumor that Japan would bring back to Peiping from his dragon-&-orchid throne in Manchukuo...
...oldtime Quaker ''thee" and "thy" was common. No one quaked or trembled, as would once have been permissible, but there was some public weeping, notably by British Quaker Harvey, who sobbed after being moved to pray that he might become a "candle of the Lord"-a traditional Quaker expression. The meetings at which such prayers were voiced, in accordance with Quaker belief that the Lord furnishes inspiration,, for them, were the first in Quaker history at which portable microphones were used. Many a Friend found the flow of his inspiration halted; some declined flatly to voice their thoughts...
...Philip of Spain, Sir Philip Sidney minimized his royal connections by taking as motto: Hardly do I call these things ours. A frail, handsome, serious child, he was early accustomed to "plots, conspiracies, attempted assassinations, rebellions, mutilations, headings and hangings . . . burnings at the stake." As Queen Elizabeth's Lord Deputy in Ireland and Lord President of Wales, his own father, a Polonius-like stalwart who advised Philip to "pray and wash with regularity," duplicated for the Irish and Welsh the dirty deals his family had received...
Mayor Yui. The potent figure of Chiang Kai-shek had last week not yet appeared directly on the Shanghai front Chinese commander at Shanghai was a little known war lord named Chang Chi-chung. More important politically was the mayor of greater (Chinese) Shanghai, Yu Hung-chun who prefers to Americanize his name to Mr. O. K. Yui. Nothing so simple as a direct municipal election is possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct...
...touch was delivered by Cartoonist Orr in the Glasgow Daily Record. Referring to numerous statements in the Japanese press that the time had come for China to be "punished," he drew a scene from Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado showing a wretched Chinese coolie, head on block before the Lord High Executioner, while beside him the spectacled Mikado, finger a-wag sings...