Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue eyes clear. As vice president of France, he sits in the fussy luxury of the Hotel Matignon, which Austro-Hungarian ambassadors occupied before 1914. The Gobelin tapestries on the walls neither fit nor affect his revolutionary ardor. He doesn't even know the name of the Roman Emperor whose bust faces him. When Thorez laughs (he is one of the few Marxists who laugh), his bellow shakes the air, and the imperial chandelier tinkles...
...voluntary exile in Egypt.* The world could read the disgrace of the House of Savoy in the titles that the abdicated Italian king had just shed from his thin, aging shoulders - Vittorio Emanuele (Ferdinand Maria Gennaro) III, King of Italy and Sardinia (1900-46) and Albania (1939-43); Emperor of Ethiopia (May 1939 November 1943); also King of Cyprus, of Jerusalem, of Armenia-ancient honors meaningless these many centuries...
...operas produced by the Met, only Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman (1927) and Peter Ibbetson (1931), and Louis Gruenberg's Emperor Jones (1933) were mild successes. The last pre-Menotti U.S. opera was Walter Damrosch's The Man without a Country, which got one performance...
Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens conducting; Victor, 5 sides). The Emperor of Japan's mechanical nightingale outsings the Emperor of China's live one, but breaks down in the attempt. When Stravinsky composed it in 1909, no political moral was intended. Performance: good...
...start, Ricardo was a better sort of man than most of his fellow colonists. To these rough, tough Spaniards, many of whom had fought as conquistadors, brutal subjugation of the Indians seemed the obvious and only way to solve the vast problems of the huge, semitropical land. Pious Emperor Charles V, in faraway Spain, tried to end the feudal system that made the Indians worse than slaves (no one was responsible for their care). He wanted the Indians to be given patient, Christian, religious instruction. Planters and priests alike flatly defied the royal edict. When the Emperor authorized his emissary...