Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolve to endeavor to promote and cultivate friendly relations with all nations, and thus contribute to the maintenance of world peace and the advancement of the welfare of humanity. We call upon you, our beloved subjects, to be of one mind, and shunning selfish aims for public service, work with one accord, helping us to attain our aspirations...
...predecessor, the present Dowager Empress Sadako, was the first consort of a Japanese Emperor to have her own "throne." She did not, howevet, occupy it when her husband, Emperor Yoshihito, was enthroned in 1915 because she was enceinte. Yoshihito Tenno, although greatly beloved, developed an impediment of the mind which caused his son (the present Tenno) to be made Regent in 1921, for Yoshihito who died...
...Empress because she gave birth to four lusty sons, whereas unfortunate Empress Nagako has had no manchild, but instead two girl-babes, one of whom died (TIME March 19). The Dowager Empress, in addition to her superior powers of generating sons of Heaven, possesses a powerful and intuitive mind, not infrequently consulted by the elder statesmen...
...philosophy is that pain gives power to the pained, makes the sufferer like unto God. Mr. Crispin learned the philosophy from his father who had tortured him as a boy. At Westminster he was different. His flamboyant red hair, pudgy hands and a distorted face which bespoke a grotesque mind, made him different through life. A man of wealth, he indulged his idiosyncratic taste for cruelty and his incongruous love of good etchings. He liked to choke old ladies. He cut the tongues from the mouths of his three Japanese servants. Mr. Crispin has a son whose father-fixation...
...fact, "Ladder" is nothing if not at odds with existing theatrical policy. It is the artistic contrast, the comic relief if you will, for the drama as a whole. It is the attempt par excellence to give the public not what it wants but what in the mind of an individual it ought to have. Art theatres and experimental playhouses the nation over can only envy the financial resources that makes its existence possible and contemplate the splendid uses to which they could put an equal amount of money. Theatre goers in general may applaud the quiet determination...