Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, earlier in the week, Prince George, youngest son of the King Emperor, entered the booth of a crystal-gazing fortune teller, laid down a crown. . . . "Your father," said the seer, "was a sea captain but he has retired." Prince George nodded encouragement. His father, the King Emperor, did indeed command H. M. S. Melampus in his youth. "Your eldest brother . . . wait, young man . . . you must warn him! I see him in the crystal. . . . It is tomorrow. He rides in a race and I see him fall. . . ." Laughing, Prince George strode from the booth. Later he warned Edward of Wales...
...George V, King and Emperor, who inaugurated the Australian Commonwealth two decades and a half ago when he was Duke of York. It was Edward, Prince of Wales, who laid the cornerstone of the Capitol Building at Canberra six years ago. This month it is Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, who has arrived with his Duchess in Australia after a tour of New Zealand (TIME, March 21, 28), to open the new Australian Parliament...
Before King-Emperor George V, waiting at Buckingham Palace last week, went 100 erudite men to retell, rhetorically, the world's obligations to Baron Joseph Lister, born just 100 years before, dead but 15 years. Said Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society: "It may well be doubted whether the scientific activities of any other man achieved as much for the saving of human life and the prevention and relief of the physical sufferings which afflict mankind...
...with some amusement that the world saw Ramsey MacDonald; first Labour Prime Minister, pay his respect to the King of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and Emperor of India as dutifully as ever did Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Wellington, or Lord North. It probably made Soviet ministers throw bombs, clench their teeth, bristle their whiskers and evince other characteristically Russian signs of displeasure. It reassured conservative England; at least radical viewpoints did not interfere with good taste...
Seventeen years ago, at the coronation of King-Emperor George V, England heard his voice for the last time. Last week, aged 82, he died. Critics said that "the purest tenor" had passed...