Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...created the above lies myself, but if you want an absolutely authentic lie which provoked an international incident take the one the Chinese told about the Emperor of Japan. They said it was his fault that the Empress didn't have a son for so long. The Japanese said it was her fault and they ought to know. Anyhow Japanese anger at this widely printed Chinese lie was one of the things which provoked the Japanese attack on Shanghai. I was there and I know...
...politicians when they found themselves forced to make him War Minister with the powers of a quasi-Dictator (TIME, April 4. 1932). "The tiger" was Japan's Army &: Navy, then rampant with the ardor of fire-eating younger officers "to wage a purifying struggle [war] for the Divine Emperor." Last week, in view of the spectacular success in Japanese eyes of General Araki's two year ride on the tiger, the entire Far East was profoundly jolted by abrupt news that General Araki had resigned "because of ill health...
...against the coronation of Japan's Manchu puppet as Emperor of Manchukuo was its onetime ruler the Chinese "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang...
...McCormick gilded-silver dinner service of 1,600 separate knives, forks, plates, dishes, platters, etc., weighing over 11,700 ounces. Made by Napoleon's favorite goldsmiths, Martin Guillaume Biennais and Jean Odiot, executed after the design of Architects Percier & Fontaine, the service was a wedding present from the Emperor to his sister Pauline on her marriage to Prince Gamillo Borghese. In 1892 the Borghese family sold it intact to Prince Baucina who sold it to Dealer Ercole Canessa who sold it to Mrs. McCormick for $80,000. Last week it was subdivided in 146 separate lots and sold, after...
...from the fact that Actor Stanley Ridges is groveling on the floor. In Days Without End, Playwright O'Neill makes a solemn, dramatic and excitingly ambitious effort to suggest that, for the problem of human duality-which he represented with masks in The Great God Brown, wraiths in Emperor Jones and asides in Strange Interlude-Christianity is still an adequate solution. Theatre Guild audiences who liked Ah Wilderness are likely to find O'Neill's second contribution to the current season as provoking, more pretentious, less alive...