Word: yi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California when he was 18, got a liking for cowboy songs and stories when he was touring the cattle country as fiddler in a small dance orchestra. Billy Hill learned then that the real cowboy songs are mostly slow and nostalgic, that with a few exceptional cona ti yi yonpy, yonpy ya's, herders sang to quiet the cattle or to soothe themselves at the end of a hard day's ride. When sound movies brought the songwriters' goldrush to Hollywood, Billy Hill went there too, wrote songs and sold them for $15 and $20 apiece, changed...
Changchun was sure that Manchukuo's real ruler, not the puppet Henry Pu Yi "Last of the Manchus" but Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto, was already dead. Probably he was. Certainly he died "of jaundice with complications" (according to the Japanese War Office) before the imperial fruit arrived. In double-quick time Emperor Hirohito created the dead marshal posthumously a baron and named as his successor another member of the super-militaristic Satsuma faction which dominates the Japanese Army, grizzled old General Takashi Hishikari of the Supreme War Council...
Biggest leak was hollow cheeked Henry Pu Yi, onetime Boy Emperor of China, now chief Whatnot of Manchukuo. Of the portions of the treasure which he was able to carry away, large sections went to Japan, other pieces were sold to private dealers. Last week citizens of Seattle trooped into Volunteer Park to inspect the brand new Art Museum, gaze in admiration at many of these Manchu driblets. The $300.000 building was a gift of Mrs. Eugene Fuller and her son Dr. Richard E. Fuller. Director of the Institute and Professor of Geology at the University of Washington...
...Wagon-Lits. An assassin shot and gravely wounded that thoroughgoing scamp General Chang Ching-yao, onetime military governor of Hunan Province. Police announced that Chang's mission was to set up a monarchy in northern China with Japanese money. Monarch was to be hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi. now puppet chief of puppet Manchukuo. Chang is "one of the most notoriously disreputable of all China's war-lords." For killing a U. S. missionary in 1920 he was later "pardoned," by whom nobody knows. His most notable reputation is for cowardice. As Governor of Hunan he reduced...
...Mayor Chou Ta-wen of Peiping ordered anti-aircraft guns mounted at 20 points round the old city wall. Not that he could keep Japanese troops out, but just to make things more uncomfortable for them. Bets increased that the Heaven-Sent Army will set hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi on the dragon throne of the old Forbidden City before summer. Peiping universities packed up their libraries and laboratory equipment, prepared to ship them to Shanghai...