Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week King-Emperor George V transferred the Court to salubrious early spring residence at Windsor-on-Thames. Soon His Majesty, 61, was astride a gentle mare and cantering pleasantly in Windsor Forest...
Gawking tourists did not notice the King-Emperor when he returned from his ride. They were assembled with a guide-lecturer who was, for once, not lecturing. Popeyed, they watched a lad of four years parade about the Castle courtyard shouldering a toy wooden gun. He, whispered the lecturer, was George Henry Hubert Las-celles, eldest son of Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles, and eldest grandson of the King-Emperor. While Master Hubert strutted, His Majesty descended from his mare and passed unnoticed within...
Soon a letter sped from Doom to Major Judson Hannigan, whence it Cached newsgatherers last week: "Esteemed Major: I refuse to submit to the Emperor your communication of the 21st of March of this year, addressed to his Majesty, Emperor William II (not as you; in your remarkable ignorance of contemporary history, write 'the Third...
...discoveries are the foundations of the Circus Maximus in Rome, a wood and stone coliseum capable of seating 300,000 persons. Mr. Burchell will explain the further plans for excavations in Pompell and Herculaneum and for the draining of a lake whose bottom holds the pleasure large of the Emperor Tiberins, sunk in the second century of the Christian...
...mystic exaltations during Holy Week, imagine Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti other than a onetime boy in Milan, onetime Papal Nuncio to Poland, onetime cardinal, now the 260th successor to St. Peter as head of their Church. They are no Egyptians to deify a pharaoh, no Romans to worship an emperor...