Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the more absurd social conventions of New York society." In Tokyo, meanwhile, Career Diplomat Douglas MacArthur II, bearer of a name that still inspires respect in Japan, rode in an imperial household coach to the royal palace, there presented his papers to his uncle's good friend, Emperor Hirohito...
...Imperial Theaters in Vienna, it was his duty to write librettos for "great composers," but Da Ponte had muffed the job. In 1785 he decided to collaborate with "an almost unknown, second-rate composer" named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Joseph II was shocked by such folly, but eventually, the amiable Emperor gave his approval. The new opera was Le Nozze di Figaro. So began the greatest collaboration in operatic history. To this day, says British Biographer April FitzLyon, nobody quite knows why "the facile, mediocre poet, the very inexperienced dramatist, should be the man who, above all others, succeeded in providing...
...arrived in Austria with nothing except "a little vocabulary" of amorous German words which he had picked up in the arms of an innkeeper's wife at the border. Da Ponte boldly demanded the post of Poet to the Theaters. Asked by the Emperor how many plays he had written, Da Ponte for once gave an honest reply: "None, Sire." The Emperor was impressed. "Good, good! Then we shall have a virgin muse," he said...
...Queen Victoria's reign, but man could always make his own. and give his own reasons. The "rainbow bridge" (1 mile, 1.705 yds.) across the Tay estuary, with its curving, spidery iron girders, was the wonder of an age of railways and engineering. European princes and the Emperor of Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this enlightened age." General Ulysses S. Grant, who on a ceremonial visit was obliged to walk halfway across...
There they heard the piercing wails of ancient reed pipes and flutes. Priests in multicolored robes raised high their offerings-bean cake, teal ducks, brightly polished apples, flasks of rice wine. A special envoy of Emperor Hirohito bore a green, silk-covered chest emblazoned in gold with the Imperial 16-petal chrysanthemum seal. The celebration's chief speaker, Kashihara's Mayor Saburo Yoshikawa, 41, who has exchanged his Japanese Imperial General Staff major's uniform for white gloves and morning coat, was in excellent form. "It is only human nature to love one's country...