Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would benefit both France and Britain to have Italy, instead of Japan, gain the upper hand in Africa's last independent empire. But these were not normal times. Abyssinia has been a member of the League of Nations in good standing since 1923. In addition, curly-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie was daily proving a shrewder diplomat than anyone had suspected. He had appealed officially to the League of Nations and raised a whirlwind of sentimental sympathy throughout Europe...
Austrian monarchists, flocking to an exhibition in Vienna of relics of the late great Emperor Franz Josef I, stared at a tray of cigar butts, badly chewed and bearing this label: "Certified by his valet, Ketterl, to have been smoked by His Majesty on the 12th of August...
...doctors and scientists of the Wanyamwesi belong to a secret association called the Empire of the Snakes. Mr. Carnochan became a member, received the guild name Young Python, rose in knowledge and proficiency until only Kalola, the late great emperor of the Snake-Men, out ranked...
Benito Mussolini has often been suspected of having a suppressed desire to sneak up behind the League of Nations when it wasn't looking and hit it on the back of the head with a stout club. If this has been the plan of the Italian dictator, Emperor Haile Selassie's telegram to Geneva is a good indication that he will not have to wait much longer for the desired nervous breakdown. No matter what answer the League makes to the walling message from Ethiopia, it is certain to pay the price of one of the major blunders...
...York Times' personals column ran an advertisement: "Raftery, Hon. Thomas, (Our Only Ordained, Anointed by God; Most Holy American Emperor, Imperial King Tom I, Of The Royal Raphia Family, of ancient Babylon on the great river Euphrates. AmRaphael being the First King mentioned in the Bible, Book of Genesis, 14th Chapter, Verse I 'Amraphael, King of Babylon' and his descendant Nebuchadnezzar being the First World King; whose wonderful Irish-Phonecian Sailors, rounded Arabia; founded the great City of Raphia. on the Mediterranean; Sailed through the Pillars of Hercules and discovered 'New Raphia' the America...