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...Japanese police spent more than 100,000 yen searching for kindly Matsukichi. Their repeated failure to capture him, he said, caused the Diet to pass a national theft prevention...
...tear the heart off her sleeve for the first foreigner to come along. In love with a Japanese law student, who squandered her money and betrayed her constantly, O-Yuki told her friends that she would never marry the foreigner, "even if I should get a million yen...
...bought O-Yuki from the teahouse for 40,000 yen (then $20,000), settled an allowance of 150 yen a month on her parents, and sailed off with his new bride to the U.S. "Friends of the family," reported the New York Times later, "said that [George's father] disapproved the union." Whatever the reason, the newlyweds cut short their visit to Newport, and after a brief spell in New York, divided their lives between Yokohama and Europe's capitals. Twelve years later, in 1915, George Morgan dropped dead in Seville, leaving his widow an estimated...
Embryonic authors with a yen for contests have been offered their second crack at cash awards in as many days. Announcement of four $25 prizes by Radcliffe's "Signature" follows close upon yesterday's establishment of an annual prize for the best published undergraduate work...
...somehow survives years & years of dull quarrels, lots of showy New Zealand background, one of the jolliest earthquakes ever filmed, a rip-roaring attack by Hollywood Maoris (who all seem to be named "Hemo"), and the limited advances, with flaring nostrils, of Mr. Heflin, who cherishes quite a yen for his business partner's wife...