Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while Dreiser's sincere plodding and plodding sincerity irks us about as much as over-sophisticated brevity, we do not find it necessary to retire to the bush and there pounding a big tribal drum, gather cohorts to slay the Emperor Jones of American literature. We are not fanatical about Dreiser. As far as we are concerned, he can make his way through any jungle of Lethiopian illiteracy without wasting his silver bullet. All we care to do is to leap out on him at an unguarded moment and make him fire off one of his lead slugs in vain...
...volumes of the diaries and correspondence of Queen Victoria, by imperial fiat of her grandson George V. Luminous paragraphs culled from the Queen's earnest pages: Of Wilhelm II (her grandson, at the age of seven [1866], five years before his Hohenzollern grandfather, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Emperor of Germany [1871] after the Franco Prussian War). "Dear little Willie's birthday ... a clever, dear, good little child. . . . May God preserve him and may he grow up good, clever, liberal minded in his views, worthy of his beloved grandpa.† who was so anxious about him that he should...
...Note in 1870. "Heard that the mob at Paris had rushed into the Senate and proclaimed the downfall of the dynasty, proclaiming a Republic. This was received with acclamation and the proclamation was made from the Hotel-de-Ville. Not one voice was raised in favor of the unfortunate Emperor [Napoleon III]. How ungrateful...
...majority of the native Indian Princes, "the subordinate allies of the King-Emperor George V," rallied to the Maharaja of Indore and apparently so alarmed the Earl of Birkenhead, His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, that he is universally believed to have advised the Viceroy not to press for the trial of the Maharaja, who could be tried, in any case, only by a court of his Indian peers...
Mussolini with an emperor's fillet encircling his brow. Mussolini staring ferociously from sightless eyes, frowning like omnipotent Jove. Mussolini represented by a bust of sinister green bronze, ten times natural size. Such was the symbol of imperialism which arrived recently at Manhattan,U.S. A., and was shipped to Boston last week as the chief item in a traveling exhibit of Italian art, which has been both sponsored and censored by the Fascist Government...