Word: shoguns
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Samples of S. O. E. D. definition: "Tycoon. 1863. (ad. Jap. taikun great lord or prince, f. Chinse ta great & kiun prince.) The title by which the shogun of Japan was described to foreigners...
...curt, bristling National Hero whom Japanese crowds call adoringly "Our Devil Tycoon" and "Our Strong Shogun" returned last week to Tokyo in terrific triumph. He, Lieut.-General Shigeru Honjo, Conqueror of Manchuria, stopped en route at a mountain spa, and was literally mobbed by U. S. and British tourists who shoved, gasped and shrilled, "Please, General, please! Your autograph! Just one more?...
...Emperor has received only one woman in private audience, Miss Evangeline Booth, "inas-much as she is a Commander." ?Fit to make Courtiers shudder is this popular nickname, recalling the period (1192-1867) when Japan was ruled by a Shogun or Tycoon, the power of the Imperial House being then in eclipse...
...Singing Fool Jolson is Al Stone, a singing waiter at an inferior nightclub, who is daft over a revue-girl (Josephine Dunn). He writes a song, sings it to the revue-girl, is heard by one Marcus (Edward Martindel), a theatrical shogun. Shogun Marcus, impressed, wants Al to write more songs, gives Molly, the revue-girl, a break. Four years later Al & Molly are Broadway pets, but Al loses Molly, who becomes infatuated with John Perry (Reed Howes). There is a three-year-old child called Sonny Boy (David Lee), who escapes artificiality so completely that a hypersensitive cinemaddict feels...
Therefore it was appropriate in the extreme, last week, that the Perry relics should have been accepted by Shogun-descended Prince Tokugawa, and not by the present Sublime Emperor of Japan, Hirohito, whose ancestors never so much as laid eyes upon Commodore Perry, or his button, braid, hair, ring...