Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emperor of Japan, the Shah of Persia and the kings of Afghanistan, Egypt, Sweden and Spain all own Rolls-Royces, as do most prominent Indian Maharajas. After trying out a fleet of Packards on the awful roads and cobblestoned streets of Jugoslavia, King Alexander has just ordered two more. Tsar Boris of Bulgaria drives a German Mercedes...
...cried "Emperor" Cook huskily, turning directly to H. R. H., "You, sir, have done a marvelous thing. Never was I so impressed as by your speech on Christmas night. I was with two Communist friends and when your name was announced to speak on behalf of the miners' fund, they scoffed, but they listened to what you had to say and when you had finished, with tears in their eyes they put their hands in their pockets and gave what money they had to the fund...
After luncheon "Emperor" Cook and the future King-Emperor shook hands as they left the table, and stood chatting for several minutes...
Next morning the Daily Sketch, London tabloid, printed an interview with "Emperor" Cook, quoted him thus...
...Later "Emperor" Cook received the following telegram: "The political bureau of the Communist party in Great Britain observes your treachery to the workers' cause. It reached a further stage at yesterday's banquet in fawning adulation of a typical representative of the class which battens upon workers...