Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poet had formed the vision of an imperial figure who should restore the Holy Roman Empire, and bring all the factions of a disunited Italy under his sole command. This man was to come forth soon, and he had even been designated as Henry VII--then nominally the emperor. But Henry died an ignoble death, having accomplished less than nothing, and Dante was forced to postpone the date of the hoped-for unification, until at last he died with his prophecy unfulfilled...
After him came many generations of authors, all hoping for an "Italia liberata". Some, with Dante, desired an emperor; some hoped for a confederation of the various free cities; and some expected conquest by a single state. Finally, the event occurred in a manner slightly different from that which any one had anticipated...
...form of government. The distrust arises from the fact that in Parliament there are four main groups each comprising one or more political parties, and these groups fight among themselves for their own particular interest. The first group is supported by the aristocracy who want a return of the Emperor and the Empire. They have, of course, lost a good deal of their property and are working to get it back. The second is backed by those people who openly advocate the return of King Otto to the throne. They say: " Since that is our will and intention, why should...
...seeds of republicanism were sown in him when, once a year, the emperor and his suite of aristocrats distinguished soldiers and statesmen came to shoot over the Moravian estate. This company were in the habit of leaving their costly cloaks, which represented a fortune to the peasant, in his father's cottage. While the shoot was on the peasants used to gather round to admire the resplendent garments, but little Tommy Masaryk alone refused to look at them, saying: " I do not like to see those things." Later, explaining his feelings, he said: "I felt there was something radically wrong...
William J. Simmons, Emperor of the K. K. K.: " In a speech to a Konvention of Kamelia (the women's Klan) I said that New York City, due to its foreign population, is the most un-American center in America, and that New England is settled by French Roman Catholics who continue to speak French and maintain parochial schools...