Word: mikados
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer day in 1853, the port of Uraga was decked in holiday style. Brightly painted, flag-festooned screens lined the shore of lower Tokyo Bay. Soldiers paraded in burnished armor. Elegant emissaries of the Mikado in exquisite brocades, and velvets turned out to greet Commodore Matthew Perry as he debarked from the U.S. man-o'-war Susquehanna...
Outside of Boston, Carol Brice was not entirely unknown. The daughter of a North Carolina preacher, she first sang in Manhattan's Town Hall at 15, with a group of spiritual shouters. At the World's Fair, she was in the chorus of the all-Negro Hot Mikado. Says she: "They tried to make a Mae West out of me." Instead she enrolled at the long-haired Juilliard School of Music. Later she married Neil Scott, one of the "screamers" in Hot Mikado...
...TIME was banned from the Mikado's empire for years before the war began (just as we were banned in Germany and banned in Italy...
Admiral William F. Halsey finally rang down the curtain on his vaudeville act about riding the Mikado's white horse: after all, Hirohito's personal belongings were still his. The saddle sent by Reno would go to the U.S. Naval Academy museum, unless Reno wanted...
Newsmen trying to find their bearings in the topsy-turvy world were reminded of another key to the Japanese in The Mikado...