Word: bummerli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor made a point of appearing at all public functions, where he was received with honor. The best restaurants dined him and his dogs Bummer and Lazarus free. He rode as an honored guest on coastwise steamship lines, at tended in a front row seat all sessions of the Legislature at Sacramento. Few were heartless enough to ridicule him. When a shopkeeper hung a caricature of him in his window, Norton I smashed it with impunity. His decrees, one of which directed the erection of a bridge from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island which was begun 63 years later under...