Word: pedals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bicycling is one of his hobbies. As a Japanese puppet he dares not leave his palace unguarded, so he rides around and around his garden compound, doing tricks. The Emperor of Manchukuo can now pedal on the rear wheel alone, with the front wheel in the air. Photography is another pastime. Henry Pu Yi likes to show his own cinemas after dinner and complains sometimes that visiting tourists never send him copies of the snapshots for which he is always willing to pose...
...Japan Army and Navy men talked (and often wrote) of almost nothing else but the "Inevitability of a Russo-Japanese War." Their militant chatter reached such a pitch last week that War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi was moved to step in and soft-pedal it. In his first interview since his elevation to the Cabinet as successor to the sword-rattling Araki, General Hayashi kept a straight face while he told the Associated Press...
...other. Senator Tom Connally of Texas last week laid before the Senate a 14,000-word report on the conduct of the 1932 Louisiana Democratic primary which John H. Overton won, which Edwin S. Broussard lost. Those who expected the Democrat-controlled Senate investigating committee to soft-pedal party scandals in the Pelican State were disappointed. Chairman Connally described the Huey Long machine, which elected Mr. Overton, as "vicious, deplorable and damnable." "I advise anyone who thinks he knows something about politics," said the Texan, "to go down in Louisiana and take a post-graduate course...
...revealed. Every morning since Johnny and Jimmy were 20 days old a nurse from Dr. McGraw's clinic has called for them at their home, every evening returned them. Competent as Johnny is at roller-skating, climbing, jumping and swimming- activities which are beyond uncoached Jimmy-he cannot pedal a tricycle. This inability points directly to the significance of Dr. McGraw's work with him. Said she last week: ''The question before us has been this: Whether or not you must wait for a child's development of the nervous system. In our experiments...
...telegram which the people of Bayreuth have feared all spring arrived there last week. The Bavarian telegrapher's face was solemnly long as he received the message over the wire, beckoned a boy to pedal down through the town and deliver it to Frau Winifred Wagner, the robust Englishwoman who guards the shrine of Composer Richard Wagner, her father-in-law whom she never knew. Frau Wagner had a feeling before she tore open the envelope that the worst had happened, that Arturo Toscanini had decided not to come to Bayreuth this summer to conduct at the Wagner Festival...