Word: nagasaki
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...play is in two acts, the first laid in and about a summer hotel in Tacoma, Washington, the second in the garden of the Marquis Hari Kari, the Japanese governor of Nagasaki. The plot centres about the endeavors of a young collegian named Wigglesworth to earn an honest living, and his infatuation with May Lifter, the daughter of Thomas Lawson Lifter, a Chicago magnate. His college career is cut short by the villainy of an uncle who robbed him of his money, and he goes west to seek his fortune in Tacoma, where Thomas Lawson Lifter with his two daughters...
...wrestlers have come to this country, gave a short history of the art in introducing them. He said in part: Jiudo first became known in Japan in the sixteenth century, and its origin is traced to a learned physician named Akiyama, who at that time lived in Nagasaki. While studying in China he acquired some knowledge of an athletic system known as Hakuda, then much practiced by the Chinese. He learned three different methods of Hakuda as well as twenty-eight ways of recovering a man from apparent death. One day he noticed a willow tree bending under a weight...
...exhibition of the Japanese wrestling called jiu-jitsu, which, translated, means the gentle art, will be given in the Gymnasium this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. J. J. O'Brien, who will give the exhibition, has been inspector of police for the past ten years in Nagasaki, Japan, where he became proficient in this form of wrestling. Jiu-jitsu is the science of catching an assailant by holds which make his efforts react upon himself. Mr. O'Brien will be assisted by a native Japanese, but after the exhibition is over has offered to show any of the holds...