Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...families. He is in fact descended from a god who sat in on the Heavenly Conference summoned by the Sun Goddess before she sent messengers down to create the Japanese Islands. His first human progenitor was such an empire builder that today the ancestor's face ennobles ten-yen notes, and his diary, which Prince Konoye owns, is valued at $12,500 a page. Konoye's father was an intimate, and he has been a protégé, of Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen), who at 90 is almost a demigod. Prince Konoye...
...many a citizen, especially when he is in his cups, is to lead a band. Most professional band leaders do not encourage these amateur impulses. But last week Leader Sammy Kaye, a smart, sandy, jug-eared young man whose slogan is "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye," turned this yen to good account. When he was winding up a recent engagement at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, Sammy Kaye had let the enthusiastic drunks go through the motions of leading his orchestra, awarded champagne to the best and funniest. Last week, on a tour of movie houses, Leader Kaye...
Acutely aware of the U. S. people's yen to do something, somehow, if only somebody would tell them what, is Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. Lately he has been swamped by thousands of letters and phone calls from misguided patriots, each with a breathless suggestion (almost invariably old-hat to the War Department) of how to speed up or bolster Defense. General Marshall is a patient man, but he has a job to do; such letters could better go to the President's new Defense Commission. One thing he is dead set against is turning...
Lithographer Dehn had always nursed a yen to work in color. But he was afraid of leaving the role of bang-up black-&-white man for that of mediocre painter. Four years ago, at the age of 41, white-haired, young-looking Adolf Dehn decided to take the plunge. Teutonically systematic, he began turning out one water color a day. His first tries were not too good; later he tore up two or three hundred of them. But he kept on, upped his output to two and even three a day, gave up lithographs altogether. Last year, on a Guggenheim...
Harvard men who have a yen for building model boats, making furniture, or fixing clocks will soon have an outlet for their creative energy...