Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked at or spoke to anyone; "Whispering Riley," who never spoke above a murmur; "Rosy the Tramp" who shaved his whiskers with a candle; Freddy Coombs, who thought he was George Washington; "The Drummer Boy" who never ceased drumming. But maddest and best loved of all was Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico...
...rice ships arrived unexpectedly in the harbor. Ruin unseated Joshua Norton's reason. He vanished for four years, then turned up in an ill-fitting naval uniform set off with tarnished gold braid and a sabre. He said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part of the Union, he proclaimed himself Emperor of the U. S. When a friend called his attention to the sorry state of Mexican affairs, Norton I decreed himself Protector of Mexico. He dropped this title after ill-fated Maximilian...
...Emperor made a point of appearing at all public functions, where he was received with honor. The best restaurants dined him and his dogs Bummer and Lazarus free. He rode as an honored guest on coastwise steamship lines, at tended in a front row seat all sessions of the Legislature at Sacramento. Few were heartless enough to ridicule him. When a shopkeeper hung a caricature of him in his window, Norton I smashed it with impunity. His decrees, one of which directed the erection of a bridge from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island which was begun 63 years later under...
...Those gondoliers were detectives!" Zipping out of Venice, 77 Duce made for historic Villa Pisani once used by Napoleon. In Chancellor Hitler's honor it had been spruced up with furniture from Venice's old Royal Palace, staffed by royal servants, some of whom had served German Emperor Wilhelm II when he visited King Victor Emmanuel III in Venice just before the War. Last week His Majesty's furniture and servants sufficed without His Majesty. When Adolf Hitler, strict teetotaler and vegetarian, sat down to the official luncheon of 25 covers he alone refused wine and meat...
...situation is perhaps paradoxical," said Count Pokolovsky, going on with his pressing, "but His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias having signed my credentials, I remain at my post. I attend all the functions of the Rumanian Court. Every Russian New Year I receive thousands of letters from His Majesty's loyal subjects in all parts of the world...