Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stepped into the big station plaza a roar of "Banzai!" from 20,000 Japanese throats made his controlled face work, his toothbrush mustache jump up & down. The Emperor sent him a cask of sake (rice wine) and a case of fish, had him to luncheon at the Imperial Palace. To his countrymen Matsuoka's statements were a model for homecoming Japanese statesmen...
Kobe (to people whose Emperor is divine) : "Have you in Japan ever thought that in your imperialistic aims you may end as a republic...
...exhibit now on view in the Treasure Room in Widener Library. This is a collection of signature of the kings and queens of all the royal houses of Europe, both past and present, Frederick the Great, Louis XII and Louis XVI of France, the Empress Eugenic, Victoria, the Emperor Charles V, Napoleon, and Louis Phillipe are all represented in this exhibition. Some of the documents bearing royal signatures are proclamations, and other military commissions...
...Pennsylvania Station one morning this week. The Metropolitan Opera Company, its future still undecided,* was on the way to Baltimore. There pretty Lily Pons would exhibit her clear, high trills in Rigpletto. Graceful Lucrezia Bori would sing in Pagliacci. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett would stain himself brown and enact Emperor Jones. The Company's famed Wagnerians would sing in Tristan und Isolde...
...difficult position," mused Governor Tang. "I don't even know where my troops are." Correspondents left him slumped in his great chair, staring vacantly out the window at some deer which nibbled unconcerned in the former deer park of the last Chinese Emperor. That night the distracted War Lord fled from Chengteh to no man knew where...