Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon the great Samport Tunnel, last and epochal link in the trans-Pyrenean railway was dedicated. The engineering feat can only be called epochal. For two milleniums and more, Emperors, Kings, men and freight have gone around the Pyrenees. Now at last the railroad has climbed and pierced through. Roadways wind interminably up the Pyrenees and over passes, none lower than 5,000 feet; but these trails are more fit for mountain goats than motorcycles and quite impracticable for the average motor car or truck. The late Emperor of the French, Napoleon...
...boat Durban, last week, as "an interpreter in French." George V, the second son of Edward VII, was merely commander of H. M. S. Melampus when the death of his elder brother, now known as the Duke of Clarence, made him Prince of Wales, later King-Emperor...
Last week Lord Plumer's prescription went unheeded, and his resignation was accepted by the King-Emperor, who appointed to succeed him another old soldier, but less peppery, Lt.-Col. Sir John Robert Chancellor, 58, Scotch, a veteran of the Indian and World Wars, and, since 1923, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, Africa...
...troubles at home, Toussaint's best general was able to declare independence. Only 13 years before, all the land and 90% of the population was owned by a small oligarchy of whites. Now no white owned land, and all the havocked property passed to ex-slaves. Making himself emperor in the grand manner, Jean Jacques Dessalines governed these ignorants by the universally understood authority of force, but he was murdered for brutal abuse of power. Among his simultaneous successors was black King Christophe, most picturesque of Haitians...
Custom entitles every retiring Speaker to receive a viscountcy. The King-Emperor has no choice as to which "signal mark of favor" he must bestow. Moreover, in Mr. Whitley's case the Sovereign was impelled not by necessity but by liveliest gratitude. Well His Majesty knows that through seven stormy years the dignity of the Throne and the sanctity of tradition have been upheld by Speaker Whitley in an often ribald House of Commons. Therefore most Britons were positive that Mr. Whitley was about to become a viscount?but they were fooled...