Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love. First meetings however, found her at least as full of politics as passion, and for the story s sake, Marie's political acumen matched her high-minded sex appeal. Cold-blooded ugly Minister of Police Fouche alternated between trying to frame her and suggesting she marry the Emperor. Aristocratic, wily Talleyrand gave her an even worse time. Josephine counted on Marie's withdrawal when she discovered that ''one may have too much of Bonaparte and yet it may not be enough." But Marie stayed on and Josephine joined the other plotters...
...compositions and has become one of the standard concert pieces for such an occasion as the opening of a musical year. Originally dedicated to Napoleon the Consul, it lost that inscription when the composer thought that the ambitious Corsican had presumed too much when he titled himself Napoleon the Emperor. Its "heroic" qualities have survived both in the magnificent music and in the fitting name "Eroica," and the performances under Koussevitzky should more than do justice to the great score...
...Nero Film) takes its title from the Austrian hunting lodge where on a cold morning of January 1889, the heir to the Habsburg dynasty was found shot with his young and tolerably beautiful mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera. All those within scrutiny were sworn to life secrecy by the Emperor Franz Joseph, who issued the fiat that the pair had committed double suicide, and the incident was the subject of an official dossier inflammable enough to be excluded finally from the State archives. In the less combustible medium of celluloid, the Mayerling mystery is simplified into a classic denouement...
...gaudy blue & gold dress uniform of a Field Marshal, the owl-eyed Son of Heaven, Hirohito, Emperor of Japan last week addressed his parliament from the Throne. Assembled for an emergency session, the legislators were expected to vote an additional $592,000,000 for a war that has already cost Japan $145,000,000. Said the Emperor...
...Japanese language. The Peiping Chamber of Commerce opened Japanese language classes to make it easier for Chinese shopkeepers to sell things to their "new masters." There was even rumor that Japan would bring back to Peiping from his dragon-&-orchid throne in Manchukuo's capital 31-year-old Emperor Kang Te, famed as "Mr. Henry Pu Yi," last of China's Manchu Emperors, who abdicated when the Republic was set up in 1912, was crowned Emperor of Manchukuo by Japan...