Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Imperial pomp such as Austria has not known since the passing of hoary Emperor Franz Josef, reigned in Vienna for one night last week in his favorite Palace of Schönbrunn. For the first time since the World War the historic gold-banded dinner service of the House of Habsburg gleamed on the banquet table in the Hall of Mirrors. Faded Habsburg livery was unpacked and donned by Austrian flunkies to wait upon the daughter of Europe's modern Caesar, Edda, Countess Ciano. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg came with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, a devout Monarchist...
Cried Chancellor Schuschnigg: "I wish His Excellency the Italian Foreign Minister to convey the best wishes of this gathering to His Majesty, the King of Italy and the Emperor of Ethiopia...
...years since Wilhelm II, All Highest Kaiser and War Lord, abdicated as German Emperor, but he was still last week Commodore of the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club which he founded 49 years ago, just before his accession to the Throne. It placed the Kiel Regatta on a par of nautical swankness with Britain's Cowes Regatta. Last winter German socialites of the Kaiserlicher Club nearly provoked the Nazi brownshirt proletariat of Kiel to riot by announcing they would celebrate Jan. 27 the birthday of Der Kaiser. A clash was averted. The Kaiserlichers dined and roared "Hoch der Kaiser!", but Storm...
...Peiping last week girlish hearts fluttered fast as news went round that an envoy of 30-year-old Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo, formerly known as Henry Pu Yi ("Boy Emperor of China"), had arrived from Hsinking, the Manchukuan capital, to inspect 100 "most beautiful and healthy girls between the ages of 15 and 20," who had been assembled by Chinese marriage brokers of renown and unblemished reputation. The envoy was performing this agreeable duty because the Emperor, whose present union with the beautiful Empress Peng Chi has not been blessed, is looking for one or more sturdy concubines...
...rendered waterproof. In it Dr. Jacobs and the Scientific American, which has promised enthusiastic cooperation, proposed to place a phonograph or sound film record bearing a salutation from the President of the U. S. to the potentates of 8113; recordings of the voices of King Edward, Stalin. Mussolini, Hitler. Emperor Hirohito and President Lin Shen; encyclopedias and newspapers: stainless steel or Monel metal models of furniture, printing presses, automobiles, airplanes, typewriters, etc.: a film projection machine with instructions for its operation; specimens of food, drink and chewing gum. Perishable materials might be sealed in an atmosphere of inert gases like...