Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harwood's Shadow...
...Japanese war criminals, clutching ribboned copies of their indictment, shuffled into court like schoolboys carrying their primers to class. In the shadow of reckoning and doom, they giggled and gossiped. In the role created by Robert Jackson, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan was pushing a sober trial of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." But Prosecutor Kee nan (who looks like W. C. Fields) had to deal with the opéra bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with...
...shadow of a shady past rose last week to smite ambitious Ichiro Hatoyama. His Liberal Party had won a thumping plurality in Japan's first postwar Diet elections; after long hesitation Premier Shidehara had recommended the stocky, 63-year-old politico to the Emperor as his successor. Then the Allied Supreme Commander spoke. "The Japanese Government," said a MacArthur directive, "having failed to act on its own responsibility, the Supreme Commander has determined the facts relative to Hatoyama's eligibility . . . finds he is an undesirable person." Hatoyama...
Even at his trial Chen was in the shadow of a more colorful and sinister puppet. Wang Ching-wei's shrewd, fat, diabetic, bad-tempered widow, Chen Pi-chun, came before the court this week. Wang's closest political adviser, she henpecked her handsome husband and bullied her four grown children, three of whom have also been jailed. Chen Pi-chun was unrepentant, but she wrote her children that she was ready, even eager...
...parlor pink, and his galaxy of talent flew apart. Often, under Bruce Bliven, the NR was peas-in-a-pod with the Nation and, for a brief period (1935), it adhered to a Marxist line.* By the time Willard Straight's son joined the staff, Croly's shadow on the magazine had faded to a faint blur...