Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open staid, conservative news organs and find the nose of the King-Emperor repeatedly referred to as a "snoot" has given Londoners a delicious, titillating thrill of sacrilege these many months. The sacrilege was last week not only permissible but even laudable because the London press was exulting at the slap administered by Chicago voters, to their blatantly anti-British Mayor, William Hale Thompson (see p. 11). Since Mayor Thompson invented and began the game of calling the nose of George V a snoot, the dignified and conservative London Morning Post permitted itself to gloat, last week: "Evidently the self...
...Netherlands bade Sir Austen to come and take dinner at the unpretentious, neatly painted mansion which serves as Her Majesty's palace. Placid Dutch courtiers admitted that Crown Princess Juliana, 19, is beginning to ponder whether she should take as a useful consort one of the British King-Emperor's younger sons: Prince Henry, 28, or Prince George...
Last week despatches told that Her Grand Ducal Highness, Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg, had been besought to give Zubkov sanctuary. She had received, it was said, a personal and impassioned plea from the doting wife who is, after all, the sister of a onetime German Emperor. Would Grand Duchess Charlotte, 32, sympathize with Princess Victoria...
...their country, wished last week that great Yuan Shih-kai might rise as a towering cohesive force from his open tomb in Honan. So great and national was his prestige that during the last year of his life and of his Presidency (1916) a movement to proclaim him Emperor and seat him on the Dragon Throne failed by the narrowest of margins. When the Chinese Revolution broke, in 1911, Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh, declared with prophetic vision: "Chaos will ensue. . . . For several decades there will be no peace in China...
Master Nicolaus, the sculptor of this announcement, who according to documentary evidence was called in 1467 from Strassburg to Vienna in order to execute. The Emperor's Tomb at St. Stephen's Cathedral, is probably identical with Nicolaus von Leyden, the sculptor of the two remarkable busts of a Prophet and a Sibyl in the former Chancellery at Strassburg, casts of which are in the Germanic Museum...