Word: mikados
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mikado's factories have fallen far behind in the battle of production. They lack precision tools, raw materials, labor-and Jap labor is not getting enough food...
...exerted through puppets. The shadow regime of Henry Pu Yi set Manchurian Chinese apart from their southern countrymen. Similarly the regime of suave Wang Ching-wei, Japan's No. 1 puppet since March 1940, was designed to wean Chinese from allegiance to Chiang Kaishek. For three years the Mikado's generals stupidly sought to give Traitor Wang "face" without a pretense of authority. Chinese derided the puppet premier as "the prisoner of Nanking." Now the Jap has turned to a policy of blandishment. On paper he has granted Nanking breathtaking political and economic concessions, such as the nominal...
...bars are down. Our brave fighters have been assassinated for doing their duty. Why not be as realistic as the Japanese? My feeling is that the main target for bombs-or shells-should be the chancellery in Berlin, the Mikado's palace in Tokyo, Hitler's hideout at Berchtesgaden, the government buildings in Berlin and Tokyo . . . where the brains are! To my mind, eradicating the motivating source is more important than destroying the instruments...
...Mikado Osborne, the 'Poon's batting here of the day, slammed out six triples, but died on third each time. His corpse may still be found lying around the field, surrounded by scores of vultures (Network men, no doubt...
Died. Jessie Bond, 89, last but one of the original Savoyards,* player of numerous Gilbert & Sullivan roles (including Iolanthe, Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Edith in The Pirates of Penzance) ; in Worthing, England. She retired in 1896. Only surviving Savoyard: Durward Lely of Glasgow...