Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silk-robed mandarins with ornate shoes turned up at the toes hailed the bland, plump youth as Emperor of Annam, the "Absolute Master and Father and Mother." In the mountain of royal baggage, unseen by Annamites, were 7,000 phonograph records, a French-English-Italian library, ten ping-pong sets and a hundred dozen ping-pong balls. Not for nothing has 19-year-old Emperor Bao Dai spent half his life in Paris, coached by Frenchmen to rule Annam as France directs. On his return to Hue the perfectly drilled Emperor replied in rapid, flawless French to greetings voiced...
...Gandhi IF. In the United Kingdom, where statesmen observe the Friday-to-Monday week-end quite as scrupulously as the Sabbath, extreme inconvenience was caused by the Mahatma's fast. Daily, then hourly, then every few minutes the King-Emperor, Prime Minister MacDonald and the India Office received bulletins from the eight doctors at Yerovda Jail, not to mention bales of cablegrams from the Viceroy and hundreds of Indian leaders. If? worried the British?if Gandhi actually died without breaking his fast, would that release the violence which hundreds of millions of Indians are capable* of exerting, but which...
...This League of Nations," the Emperor begins, "is in itself contradictory nonsense and is absolutely worthless! The so-called 'League of Nations' is in reality only a concern composed of those nations who rushed at Germany in criminal onslaught like a band of highway robbers at a traveller...
Information given us at various times on our many travels by those in authority in many places in foreign lands always placed violet-tinted white jade as the highest in grade and value. A few of these places where it was seen were: the Emperor's Museum in the "Forbidden City," Peking (now Peiping), China (time, about 11 years ago), finely carved Buddhas and other ornaments; Mandalay and upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River, Burma, India, bead necklaces, etc.; Tibet, lama's hand prayer wheels...
...Emperor has received only one woman in private audience, Miss Evangeline Booth, "inas-much as she is a Commander." ?Fit to make Courtiers shudder is this popular nickname, recalling the period (1192-1867) when Japan was ruled by a Shogun or Tycoon, the power of the Imperial House being then in eclipse...