Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome ambassadors of every Power were caught last week upon the tender hip of precedence. Their Excellencies represent, technically, the actual person of the sovereign or president who despatched them to Rome. As such they receive the precedence which would be due U. S. President Coolidge or the King-Emperor George V. Yet last week, Premier Mussolini rushed through a Cabinet decree raising the Secretary General of the Fascist party to precedence over all ambassadors, ministers or special envoys. This is unprecedented. New Dating. Hot-headed observers saw a new breach of usage, a new aggrandizement of Fascismo last week...
...known many men of moral and physical courage-but none more personally chivalrous and brave than the now exiled Kaiser." Not content with this panegyric of Wilhelm II, Mr. Bigelow paused to eulogize the onetime Kaiser's grandsire, Wilhelm I: "He was a grand old monarch, that first Emperor William-Der Greise Kaiser as his people fondly called him. Nor can I recall without emotion how myself and other boys of my age, whether American or German-how proud we were when privileged merely to see his venerable form when he might be walking in the park. But when...
Commerce halted and impending Death hushed the people of Japan last week into a dread dull stillness. Their Emperor lay dying at Hayama (TIME, Nov. 22 et seq.). They knew that the shades of his 122 imperial ancestors were assembling at Tokyo in awful conclave round the Imperial Shrine in the Chiyoda Palace. It was as though the people of the U. S. should suspend all activity, believing that Washington, Lincoln, Pierce, Arthur and the 23 other dead Presidents had gathered, majestic ghosts, at the Capitol...
Rest. Dusk came. As lamps were lighted the Emperor received an ounce of liquid food administered through a tube. He was approaching the last stages of pneumonia, and his lungs have always been weak. At his bedside a physician administered oxygen whenever he seemed sinking. The pulse, constant for some time at 126,* became too fast to count. The respiration mounted to 84;? the Emperor's feet swelled markedly...
...Japanese ordinarily refer to the Emperor as Tenno (Heavenly King) or Tenshi (Son of Heaven) and speak of him as Kotei (a Chinese title meaning Emperor) in discussing his relation to non-Japanese affairs. Only foreigners employ in conversation the poetic title Mikado...