Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fighting Eagle (Rod La Rocque, Phyllis Haver). According to Conan Doyle's story, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, that hero's bombast was rivaled only by Emperor Napoleon's bombardment. The film shows Gerard bragging, boasting, swaggering and finally redeeming himself by helping the heroine recover important state papers from the wily Talleyrand. Just as a firing squad is about to punctuate Gerard's career of rodomontade, Bonaparte steps before the muskets and saves his brigadier. From that day forth, it is, "I sez to my friend, the Emperor...
...Highnesses arrived late, but turned out of their log cabin quarters at 7 a. m. on the first morning of their visit, went before breakfast to inspect the extensive and varied livestock herd, now featured by two ponderous and potent bulls and a superb stallion, the gift of King-Emperor George...
Near Wroxeter, a shattered Roman tablet related, when pieced together, that the Roman ruin from which it was retrieved was a forum -the largest yet found in England -built by Emperor Hadrian in A. D. 130. Wroxeter's name in Hadrian's day was Uriconium. Uriconian relics: a steel-sheathed cockspur, coins, a surgical lancet, sandal imprints on cement. ¶Sir Humphrey Rolleston consoled his fellow countrymen by telling the British Medical Association that mummies almost 5,000 years old examined by him bore traces of gout, tuberculosis, pyorrhea; that a bust of Alexander the Great gave hints...
Died. G. M. Wandrey, 89, for many years head shepherd to the flocks of the onetime (1871-88) German Emperor Wilhelm I; in Owatonna, Minn...
...this time his great abilities were so universally apparent that the late Emperor Yoshihito (1879-1927) issued a decree excepting him from the operation of the Japanese law which prudently debars army and navy men from entering politics...