Word: moat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blind, and crippled as well. At 170 lonely leper outposts around this old world there are men and women and little children asking ''Will there be any Christmas this year?" Not the kind of Christmas that means extra comforts and luxuries; but just the supplying of the moat desperate wants of the most needy and helpless people on the face of the earth. A warm blanket for a grandmother shaking with cold and fever ($2); sandals for bleeding feet (50?); milk for the little children and the very ill; garden seeds for a leper man so that...
Whisked away to the Royal Palace, happy Mr. Hsieh disappeared behind its frowning moat and was solemnly conducted to awesome Phoenix Hall. Being incombustible, or at least always able to rise from its own ashes, the mythical phoenix is the fiery symbol of Japan's sun-begotten reigning house. Last week when the Son of Heaven actually appeared, Hsieh Kai-shih seemed so flabbergasted by the honor done him that Japanese courtiers had to nudge him at the right moments as he made his speech of thanks for recognition of Manchukuo, then received the dazzling Order of Merit, Grand...
...inside the great moat-and-wall which surround the 486-acre Royal Palace, all was ecstasy. The Son of Heaven personally received Conqueror Honjo, personally delivered to him an Imperial rescript of thanks and delicately hinted other gifts. These (later bestowed by the Imperial Chamberlain) included "a sum of money," an inscribed gold watch...