Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tone that captivated the countless thousands of Harvard men tuned in at the moment. But many a listener heard at one time or another during the program a slowly increasing buzz. Was the immortal Paderewski executing a deft tremolo with the lower tones? Was the discord a modernistic tone-poem? Was the piano out o tune? Most emphatically not! It was simply that certain unnamed but fuzzy-bearded individuals were engaged in peeling hair off their respected chins with (O shame of shames) electric razors...
Prize-winning poem in a patriotic literature contest held by Kodan Kurabu, popular Tokyo monthly, was written by a naval flier...
Biggest poetic outpouring of Japan is the annual Imperial poetry contest, the winners of which were announced last week by the Poetry Bureau of the Imperial Household. Any Japanese subject may submit a poem of 31 syllables (called a tanka) on a given subject. This year's subject: ''The Morning Sun Shines on the Island." Normally about 17,000 subjects of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Hirohito submit a tanka, but the wartime verse boom more than doubled the usual number of contestants. This year's contestants numbered...
...five winners, two were soldiers, one a captain, the other a private. But the most important poem was the one composed by His Imperial Majesty and read at the annual Imperial Poem Reading...
Other contributors were Her Imperial Majesty Empress Nagako and Her Imperial Majesty Sadako, the Empress Dowager. Last year the Emperor created a sensation by mentioning "peace" in his poem. This year only the Empress Dowager used the word...