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...crowd of mumbling peasants fills a convent courtyard and hails, when whipped by his henchman, the man they do not want for Tsar. The scene changes and in his cell, by the feeble light of a lamp, a monk sits writing the history of Muscovy, how a Tsar's son has been killed and his murderer has taken the throne. Again a change; the Kremlin bells are ringing and across the square that separates the Cathedrals of the Assumption and the Archangels there files a procession ?deacons, sons of boyars, boyars and the new Tsar himself. Gloria! Gloria...
George V. A motor ambulance suitable for transporting His Majesty to the Sussex seaside where he will recuperate (TIME, Feb. 4) was driven into the courtyard of Buckingham Palace, last week, and later the Royal physicians announced that they had "thoroughly tested its suitability...
Loud cries warned that the Son of Heaven was entering the Shishinden from the North. To the South, all 'round the courtyard, spectators stiffened to immobility. Slowly the slender, spectacled Tenno paced up the steps of the Takamikura and sat down in his black lacquer chair. Pompously the Lord Chamberlain placed upon stands adjoining the Throne, the sacred Sword and Jewel, emblems and relics of the Sun Goddess, which, together with the Divine Mirror, attest the utter sanctity of the enthronement. Then a plain wooden baton was presented to the Tenno - "The Scepter...
Fierce spading and shoveling by Japanese students began in the courtyard of Waseda University last week-all because beloved Professor Yuzo Tsubouchi has finished, after 43 years labor, a translation of the complete works of William Shakespeare into Japanese...
Last week the sleek limousine of Lewis Einstein, rich and smart "career diplomat," and U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, was accorded every mark of respect as it wheeled into the courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry. Alighting briskly suave Mr. Einstein stepped within and soon deposited a formal demand from the U.S. State Department that the annual quota set upon U. S. motor cars imported into Czechoslovakia shall be raised this year by a cool...