Word: emperor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Paulus Emilus, Emperor of Rome, beheld the statue of Zeus Olympus which a Greek, Phidias of Athens, had erected at Olympia in ivory and gold, he trembled in all his limbs, and ordered sacrifices to be offered before the image. Twenty years later the Emperor was dead, and in a few years more the statue itself was a fable. Few men alive in the sixth century had ever seen it, fewer still could tell what had become of it. Copies exist, worn faces on coins, busts that show the softening touch of weaker epochs. Last week a new copy...
Wilhelm, who had supposed his intrinsic greatness to be so transcendant that he had his portrait painted as a Roman Emperor upon a bounding stallion, tasted the ashes of being undeceived...
...hours later a Dutch soldier, guarding the frontier at Eysden, was struck dumb when a man in a long military cloak approached him, hesitated, said: "I am the Emperor of Germany. Here is my sword...
Eighteen days later he abdicated as King and Emperor at Amerongen, the moat-defended chateau of Count Godard Bentinck, a Knight of the Prussian Order of St. John of which Wilhelm II was the head. Only because of his oath "to aid any Knight of St. John in distress," did Knight Bentinck shelter Knight Hohenzollern...
...Wilhelm, who passed sleepless nights and nerve-wracked days, lest the Allies enforce Part IV (Penalties) Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles. Therein are inscribed the most celebrated "dead sentences" of that document: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II, of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties...