Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Year's men-the Chinese Generalissimo and the Emperor of Ethiopia-got the living bejesus beat out of 'em. Maybe the same jinx would catch Hitler. CHARLES B. WILLIAMS Rome...
Silently in Buckingham Palace the King-Emperor drew a sheet of parchment toward him, dipped pen and signed "George R. I." beneath a proclamation canceling last week the September "Crisis" Proclamation under which the Royal Navy was put under partial, later full mobilization. The new proclamation proclaimed: "His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, doth hereby declare that a case of emergency no longer exists...
...last day of Ramadan, the month in which the Koran was revealed, and in the hill station of Kanwali. A battalion of the King-Emperor's Indian soldiers were observing Mohammed's strict law. During Ramadan, it is written, a Moslem must not enjoy the pleasures of food, drink, tobacco and women from that time in the morning when a white thread can be distinguished from a black one, until the hour of the evening when neither can be seen...
...Meurice is frivolous. It looks as much like a gondola as an elevator can. Into it one evening last week stepped two aged Britons-Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax. They alighted at an upper floor and proceeded to the suite of the man who used to be their King-Emperor, now His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor...
Five years ago in Majorca Robert Graves, 43-year-old poet, scholar, teacher and soldier, who gained U. S. fame with his account of his War years, Goodbye to All That, wrote his first Roman novel as a scholarly potboiler. Called /, Claudius and giving a sympathetic account of the emperor whom Gibbon considered only a shade better than Nero, it became a bestseller. In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story...