Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roots in French literature (he speaks no English) and he used to call himself "Henri Waung." In 1903 he graduated from Tokyo Law College and attached himself to Dr. Sun. In 1909 he rushed to Peking for a bold effort to assassinate Prince Regent Chun, father of the Boy-Emperor who was then China's Son-of-Heaven, now reigns as Manchukuo's puppet Emperor...
Strictly off the record, eight Japanese statesmen out of ten will readily admit to not believing the official legend that their Emperor is descended from the Sun Goddess. "We regard our Emperor with the respect Catholics feel for their Pope," they often say in private. Yet last week in the Japanese Parliament, sturdy old Premier Admiral Okada was put sternly on the record. Did he or did he not, demanded Baron Kiyozumi Inouye, hold with Japan's eminent Constitutional authority Dr. Tatsuki Minobe who has just created a nation-wide furor by alluding to the Son-of-Heaven...
...Since the Royal person will be indispensable at jubilee observances all summer, doctors busied themselves last week with the 69-year-old King-Emperor who has resolved to exert himself once more to the very limit. Absolute rest until just before the Jubilee was the physicians' prescription. Where to get it? Since George V is adamant in his yearly decision ("I will not go to the French Riviera or anywhere outside of England"), Their Majesties graciously accepted last week the loan of an English mansion, no palace, from the Duke of Devonshire whose wife is Queen Mary...
...sunk "the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean would pass to Turkey." Just to be sure, three British cruisers and four destroyers were promptly sent to the British island of Cyprus. Greeks in Greece, who know that their deposed King George II is a close friend of King-Emperor George V and a frequent guest at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, suspected the worst...
...teau? He built it. A woman? He took her. The Mona Lisa? He bought it. Another province? He raised an army. But his political ambitions ended by embroiling him in a complicated series of expensive wars, and at the battle of Pavia he was captured by the German Emperor Charles V, imprisoned in Madrid and held for a nearly ruinous ransom...