Word: togo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Admiral Heihachiro Togo, 86, Japan's "Nelson," highest ranking subject of Emperor Hirohito; of cancer of the throat; in Tokyo...
...Admiral Togo steamed back to Sasebo a world hero. His Emperor made him a Count. In 1911 when he was returning from the coronation of George V via Washington Admiral Togo was almost knocked out of his uniform by the enthusiastic back-slapping Teddy Roosevelt...
Last week, two days after the 20th anniversary of his great victory, Heihachiro Togo lay in his little Tokyo house, dying of cancer of the throat. For years Admiral Togo has been a living myth to the people of Japan, appearing publicly only once a year on the anniversary of the Battle of Tsushima Straits...
When the Emperor learned that the 86-year-old hero could not live more than a day or two, he had him raised from a Count to a Marquis, sent him from the imperial cellars twelve bottles of ancient wine. Admiral Togo could not swallow, could scarcely speak, but he had not forgotten how to receive such honors. He had his ceremonial Japanese robes (the haori-hakama) spread over the end of his bed. For six years his wife, the Countess Tet-suko Togo, had been bedridden with neuralgia. But at the clink of the Emperor's bottles...
...just want to rest until the end," croaked Admiral Togo, "I am thinking of my Emperor-and roses...