Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Iwane Matsui, called "the Long-Eared" (a traditional Japanese sign of wisdom), last week made his triumphal entry into captured Nanking, the abandoned Chinese capital, outside whose walls stands the $3,000,000 tomb of sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Revolution." That historic moment meant more to General Matsui than it would to most Japanese, for Revolutionist Sun spent many years in Japan, became a close friend of Matsui, who took up the doctrine of Pan-Asianism to which grateful Dr. Sun at the time enthusiastically subscribed...
...President Kalinin recently retorted (TIME, Dec. 6): "It is a grave mistake to think this. ... If in our country in a number of places candidates withdraw their names for the benefit of some candidate, it is the result of their social kinship and common political purpose. . . . It is a sign of socialism last week. Defense Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov and his Marshals and Generals of the Red Army cracked out speeches all over Russia in their hoarse, parade-ground voices, calling the election "our Mobilization!" and making vigorous efforts to get out the vote...
...Russians for months about how the secret ballot, "that great boon conferred by Stalin, Our Sun," will protect them. The 100,000,000 prospective voters have been warned that of course they must not write their names on these secret ballots, that any ballot would be invalidated if so signed or marked that the voter revealed his identity. Suddenly upon this point the Soviet press reversed, proclaimed last week under banner headlines that every voter was privileged to sign the ballot, thus proving his or her individual loyalty to Bolshevism and to Stalin, thus giving all citizens the privilege...
...visceral chills wherever it was jeered or cheered. His pictures drawn under the influence of opium are monstrous and unforgettable. Critics have found Cocteau difficult to classify. His Oedipus says, "Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres . . . quit the ranks. That's the sign of masterpieces and heroes. An original, that's the person to astonish and to rule...
...tonsured "monks" by his side. He held services for his people, giving them "the sacraments," for, as his housekeeper explained, "we are really a Roman Catholic church although we are not under the Pope." But when the press began getting too inquisitive, "Padre" Abbate secreted himself, had a sign put on the door: For Members Only...