Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London screaming red placards reading "WELCOME EMPEROR!" had been pasted on delivery vans by Labor and Liberal newsorgans but, taking their cue from their Government, Conservative London papers did their best to ignore Haile Selassie, tucked news that he was coming into obscure squibs. Nevertheless, 5,000 unofficial welcomers rushed to Waterloo Station. Among them were Chinese, Hindus, Arabs and Negroes, cheek by jowl with English of every class, including pink-cheeked gentlemen in high silk hats and ladies, some of whom waved simultaneously the British and Ethiopian flags as the private Pullman car of Haile Selassie drew...
Born. To Bao Dai, 23, Buddhist Emperor of Annam; and his Roman Catholic Empress Marie N'Guyen Houhao, 20; a son, their first; in Hue, Annam...
Later in cutaway coat and striped trousers he wandered sadly down the hotel corridor. Before him a buxom Spanish charwoman was on her hands and knees scrubbing the floor. For three full minutes he stared solemnly at her healthy Andalusian contours, then a slow smile spread over the little Emperor's face. He fished in his pocket, produced a crisp ?5 note...
...twinkled up to the docks in Southampton, although it was Derby Day, and swank Britons scrambled to wave goodbys while broad Southampton Water was pack-jammed with British paddle-wheel steamers made joyously lopsided by passengers crowding near as possible to the Queen Mary. From Buckingham Palace the King Emperor flashed final greetings. From the Stateliest Ship began stately and soul-stirring B.B.C. broadcasts day and night to every remotest corner of the empire...
...head is the work of the conservative, elegant wing of late Renaissance sculpture which at first sight appears to be a copy of some portrait of Marcus Aurelius with its finely shaped head, its mass of close curls and prominent brooding eyes, all familiar from his equestrian statue as emperor and his marble bust...