Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that moment, an Emperor of the East was lifting a distinguished gentleman of an ancient oriental family to the high rank of Ambassador, was sending him to the U. S. to cope with the problem of how the East may understand the West. The U. S. Secre- tary of State pondered, for it rested with him to make the stay of this new Ambassador in a Western country a success in point of amity-a greater success than the mission of the oriental Ambassador's predecessor, who had blundered badly by using threatening language to the Senate...
...policy of trying to appease and mollify the insurgents-a policy of which Mr. Harding was the chief proponent. It seemed to mark an attempt on the part of regular Republicans to dethrone rather than to seek an alli- ance with Mr. LaFollette who has long been the political emperor of the state...
...property was $42,000 for legal fees to Karolyi's attorney. The report on the findings of the Supreme Court was obviously incomplete ; no mention was made of the Count's defense that he entered into communications with Hungary's ene- mies on the request of Emperor Karl. In the main, he was charged, like Caillaux and others in France, of endangering Hungary's alliances, aggravated in his case by entering into communications with the enemy during a time...
Written by one American, three Britishers, one Frenchman and a great Corsican, printed, bound and delivered to an unsuspecting public by five U. S. publishing houses, this small Napoleonic library represents the first half of the season's output on the first French Emperor since Lothaire, grandson of Charlemagne...
...smallest of drops in the largest of buckets. The splash is, therefore, proportionate in size. But why did the drop make the splash in the bucket at this particular time? The only satisfactory answer that can be vouchsafed is that this is the 155th anniversary of the great Emperor's birth, or the 103rd anniversary of his death. If neither of these answers is correct, the drop must have dropped not by any conscious cooperation of the publishers, but simply because it dropped...