Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Facts are that since His Majesty's pneumonia George V has seemed to relish only two things, oysters and sweet puddings, of which he eats as much as his doctors let him. In Edward of Wales farsighted Chummy sees a future King-Emperor even less likely to appreciate his art. The favorite dinner of H. R. H. consists of cold meat & whiskey-soda-a menu sometimes expanded by cabbage or some other vegetable, always boiled. Unlike his fat, great-eating grandfather, and unlike his father, Edward of Wales detests sweets. But both George V and his son prefer whiskey...
...Communist oldster. "The things I fought for - Freedom, Equality. Happiness - somehow the Revolution has lost sight of them!" No grumbler is Bomb Boy Michael Frolenko. ancient, grizzled Chief Assassin (there were 20) of Tsar Alexander II, who "liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face. One eye was shut, the other expressionless. . . . The agony lasted 45 minutes." Bomber Frolenko spent 24 years at hard labor...
...round the railway station at 7 a. m. when Conqueror Honjo's special train chuffed in. On the platform stood princes of the Royal House, six Cabinet Ministers and the Imperial Chamberlain who solemnly stepped forward to bestow on General Honjo the divine welcome of the "Son of Heaven," Emperor Hirohito...
Four days later Chancellor von Papen, acting for President von Hindenburg, issued decrees partitioning Prussia into approximately the same "provinces" which existed in 1807-when Prussia was conquered by Napoleon, Emperor of the French...
...early this month when Conductor Coates took over the last half of the Stadium concerts of the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Albert Coates tried to look unconcerned during the prolonged applause, making only the vaguest of gestures. Then he bobbed ebulliently over his orchestra, resembling greatly a Roman emperor, although illness last spring had reduced his weight from 240 lb. to 200 Ib. From night to night thereafter he presided over such various Stadium doings as four all-Russian programs, the Hall Johnson Choir, the Albertina Rasch dancers, an all-Gershwin concert?all with the practiced versatility which...