Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan's No. 1 Christian. The war has stalled Kagawa's co-operative enterprises, has almost completely halted sales of the many books from which he financed his work and his modest home life. Last Christmas U. S. Christians raised $1,000 as a gift to the myopic, soft-faced little Japanese. Last week Miss Helen Faville Topping, Dr. Kagawa's devoted American amanuensis, was circulating among his friends a poem, To Tears, which he wrote to voice his feelings on the Chinese war. Excerpt...
Hirohito, myopic Emperor, last week convened with awful solemnity the first Imperial Council held in Japan since 1914. The Conference met, not for the purpose of deciding anything or advising His Imperial Majesty, merely to have the Son of Heaven give his august sanction to new policies previously agreed upon. For let the Emperor, descendant of the Sun Goddess and himself godly in Japanese eyes, speak in Imperial Conference, and impious is any Japanese, high or low, who dissents...
...soil is of sufficient importance to this country to merit our protection on purely economic grounds. It thought, and still thinks, that citizens venturing into a war zone once of the "Panay" and the Standard Oil vessels on the Yangtse was an exception to acknowledged policy, and while the myopic shortcomings of Japanese aviators are to be regretted, nothing can be done...
What first-nighters found they had paid for was a comedy written with a stylish stylus, a mort of Jovian musing, some heavy-handed Olympian plotting-and the Lunts. Just as all but the extremely myopic soon discovered that the display of buttockry in the startling opening set was a plaster hoax, so none but the most zealous Lunt-Fontanne champions found Amphitryon 38 the perfect play...
...recall of Turkey's Foreign Minister suggested a likely explanation for the wrath of Turkey's Dictator and the fall of Turkey's Premier. At the Nyon Conference recently myopic Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras was cajoled by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff into agreeing that British and French ships assigned to patrol the seas around Turkey for "pirates" (TIME, Sept. 27) should be permitted to base their operations in Turkish ports. Next thing Dr. Aras knew Turkey had failed at Geneva, even with the aid of Comrade Litvinoff, to be re-elected to the League Council...