Word: chichibu
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...highest mountain in the Bernese Alps. Down to the famed Jungfrau Joch Hotel. Up the Schreckhorn, 13,386 ft. Down to Grindelwald. FOOD. A steak as thick as the climber's thong-bound wrist. Such was the Alpine exploit performed in one day last week by Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado of Japan, first Alpinist to scale either the Finsteraarhorn or the Schreckhorn this year...
...narrow slanting eyes peeped last week above the topmost crag of the famed Wetterhorn.* Seven hours before, three Japanese and five Swiss guides had set out from Grindelwald. He who peeped royally from the summit, was Prince Chichibu of Japan, second son of the Mikado. As everyone knows, he has wintered and disported himself in Switzerland, has survived an ankle strained while skating and ensuing measles (TIME...
...Prince Chichibu made known in confidence that he will occupy next winter at Magdalen (pronounced Maudlin) College, Oxford, the very rooms once dwelt in by precocious undergraduate Oscar Wilde
Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton gave a ball before the first Court. First to dance with bobbed-haired Matilda Houghton was Edward of Wales. Chichibu of Nippon, Gustaf of Sweden, followed. Colonel and Mrs. Edward M. House looked on. Present was almost everyone of note then in London except Their Britannic Majesties...
...gala night at Covent Garden, London. The King was there, so were the Queen with the old Dowager Countess of Minto, the Duke and the Duchess of Beaufort, he who was King Manuel and she who was Queen Augusta of Portugal, Prince Chichibu of Japan and a hundred other folk whom people jostle through crowds to glimpse. But it was not for the King or for the Queen that common folk had stood, many of them, some 20 hours in line, not for them especially that Covent Garden had preened itself to a pre-War splendor. It was for Nellie...