Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscure, ambitious general deserted the once potent Hoji family of military tyrants and threw his army on the side of the exiled Emperor Go Daigo. The Emperor's side won. Having set Go Daigo, descendant of the Sun Goddess, back on his throne in Kyoto, Takauji Ashikaga lost no time in pulling himself up by the sacred boot straps of the Emperor. As the Emperor's most trusted adviser he hoped to become Shogun. When Go Daigo appointed his son instead, Takauji, furious but resourceful, persuaded the Emperor that his son was a traitor...
Many long years ago lived Blasius, physician and bishop of Sebaste in Armenia. In his old age, during the persecutions of Emperor Licinius, Blasius retired to a cave where he made friends with lions, leopards, bears and wolves. One day the emperor's huntsmen found him, dragged him away from his pets. On his way to trial Blasius cured a small boy who was choking on a fish bone. He also made a wolf return a pig it had stolen from an old woman. When Blasius was flung into a dungeon to starve, the woman gratefully brought...
Among costumes affected by the No. 2 Nazi, beefy Hermann Wilhelm GÖring who holds more offices in Germany than anyone else, is a blue velvet robe made like the toga of a Roman Emperor, complete with a tame lion cub trained to sit impressively beside Prussian Premier GÖring's desk...
...princes." Down the street marched a score of young men and old, onetime kings and princes of Imperial German states. Under the gate arch hung with a pennoned canopy, through the palace entrance marked with the letter "W" in electric light bulbs, they trooped to salute their onetime King-Emperor. Then the black-suited company of men, led by Wilhelm, gave praise to the God of the Hohenzollerns. It was Wilhelm's 75th birthday...
...hand the show was most effective in demonstrating how different designers handle the same play. There were settings for Hamlet by the Soviet Nicolai Akimoff, the Austrian Oscar Strnad; the Czechoslovakian Vlastislav Hofman; the German Hans Poelzig, Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager and Lee Simonson of the U. S. Emperor Jones was set by Cleon Throckmorton, Donald Oenslager of New York; Walter Rene Fuerst of Paris; Vlastislav Hofman of Prague. Other highlights among the exhibits...