Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that Asa was King of Judah can be concealed now from none. Ninety per cent, of the people believe there was only one Roman Emperor and his name was Nero...
Before the War, Germany was a Confederation of States under the hereditary presidency of the King of Prussia as German Emperor. Since the enactment of the Constitution of Weimar in 1919, Germany is a Federated Republic, much the same as the United States. Prussia, however, retains her old supremacy and the proceedings of the Diet which rules that State, apart from affecting the greater portion of German territory, have an enormous influence in the 17 other States (Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Saxony...
...disrepute, as an agency too casual to be revered and too dubious to be trusted. That suggestion is implicit in the affairs of the Jewish family Rakowitz. Babette, afterwards the first Mrs. Rakowitz, used to march each evening, attended by two white trouser-legs, to the camp of the Emperor Napoleon at Pressburg. She bred and ruled many Rakowitzes, passed her domineering spirit down through seven generations of Rakowitz women who overruled seven generations of Rakowitz men. The book is an extraordinary graph of the involved ganglia, the subtle criss-crossing veins, the interwoven tissues of a great family...
...great gentleman once stated that, since the exercise of power is beyond doubt the only sensible gratification that the world affords to the thoughtful, there were but two goals which seriously attracted his ambition-to be Emperor of the Russians, or to conduct a symphony orchestra. In the course of history, women have entertained and indeed achieved desires very similar. They have commanded knights and serfs, taken walled towns and sat throned among their armies. Yet, few women have ever risen to lead orchestras. Last week, in Manhattan, one did. Miss Ethel Leginska, famed pianist, composer, conducted the New York...
...hatred burning beneath their derision, that this shrunken carcass was once the Conqueror of Peru, the boisterous cattleman from Panama, who sailed home to Spain and had himself made Viceroy of New Castile; who sailed back; slaughtered Incas for their gold at Cuzco and thought himself a very great Emperor indeed. "Ha!" say the monks, and look as if they would spit upon those miserable bones...