Word: noboru
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Protective Coloring. In Tokyo, after a brief investigation, pol:ce felt that they had spotted the man behind a recent rash of wristwatch smuggling, arrested Noboru Higasa, chairman of a local crime-prevention society...
...city. O Haru's sister had gone there and was so lost to shame that she got a job as waitress at a café. O Haru's father went there, and returned with an alarm clock, a fountain pen, and a traveling bag for his wife. Noboru went there, to try to reclaim O Haru's sister, but she had got out of the way of saying "Ma-a!" and "O-i!" so they did not have much to talk about. Noboru went home, like a sensible fellow, and married O Haru. who said things...
...city life in what he defined as "radio style." Eitaro Ishigaki, a Japanese, drew a picture of a phantom on the point of being crushed by a thousand falling elevated trains and run over by a horde of cockroach taxicabs. It was a "satire on the U. S. flapper." Noboru Foujioka painted some dejected cretins playing at cards, called it "American Spirit." And another member of the Jap-Manhattan school showed "evolution" as a tree with the body of an ape, burrowing worms for roots, a fruit of masks against a sky studded with glass diamonds. There was a wooden...