Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second and last Emperor of Brazil, deposed...
...King feel like a worm or sardine, † but Edward VIII found an unexpected press champion next morning in Viscount Rothermere. T his noble Lord's mass London organ, the Daily Mail (which has eight times the circulation of the Times), came out with a smashing pro-King-Emperor and anti-Prime Minister editorial. Recalling Stanley Baldwin's recent bumbling admission in the House of Commons that he would have told the public of the war danger Britain faces except that he was afraid that would lose him the last General Election, the Daily Mail cried: "Surely those...
...England to remain the wife of Mr. Simpson. Sir Claud Schuster, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor was reported to have advised the Cabinet that legally the King cannot marry Mrs. Simpson without the Government's consent. The New York Times credited the highly exasperated King-Emperor with having told his Prime Minister something to this effect: "I am now happy for the first time in my life and I wish you would let me alone...
...Emperor Napoleon now, he quarrelled with Czar Alexander I, he undertook to reprimand that monarch. He won the battle of Borodino but lost three hundred eighty thousand men. In October 1813 he lost at Leipsic to a Russian-Prussian-Austrian coalition. His enemies marched into Paris, the Emperor left for Elba...
...March in 1815 the Emperor returned. He best the Prussians. He marched doggedly toward the English, encamped at Waterloo. There was a sound of revelry by night . . . . The English spurred to the field from their midnight frolic . . . . Napoleon left again. This time for Saint Helena. He never returned. He brooded over the past and wrote his "Memoirs". He died...