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Word: calligraphic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived in an "assassination-proof" house in Tokyo. Now he lives in a modest villa in the Tokyo suburbs. Early one morning last week there came to the modest villa a 33-year-old autograph hunter named Naohiko Nishiyama. While the kimonoed Baron obligingly painted his calligraph, Autograph Hunter Nishiyama whipped a revolver from a parchment scroll, fired thrice, missed once. Though wounded, the Baron gave chase, caught the visitor by the shirt, held him with the aid of a guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Big Shot-At | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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