Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land of Chinese Communism. But its sparse population and extreme remoteness force it out of this week's picture. The same is true of nearby independent Tibet. Manchukuo is that part of what was once China in which Japan in 1932 set up as her puppet the onetime Emperor of China, whose right to a Throne is entirely legitimate. This young man. famed as "Mr. Henry Pu Yi," is the descendant of Manchu Lords who marched from Manchuria to conquer China three centuries ago. Today he is a Japanese puppet but he also rules the land of his Manchu...
Lilies of France (see cut). In Paris last week he was visited by a most anxious and disgruntled young nephew who suddenly arrived from Belgium-"His Majesty, Otto, Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King of Hungary," as this handsome and 100% legitimate pretender to the Dual Crown is styled by devoted Austrian and Hungarian monarchists...
...reputation as the best organized course in Harvard, makes a good provision for uniform treatment among the thralls of the various petty tyrants. After the examinations have been taken but before they are marked, a solemn assembly is called in which all the princes are gathered about their shining emperor, a concrete embodiment of the principle of Unity. There it is decided and decreed just what shall constitute a good answer to each question, and the underlings go out with fairly uniform standards to judge the blue books...
...titanic length for Japanese wrestlers, whose endurance is not their most noteworthy characteristic, lasted three minutes. When the referee waved his fan over the winner, puffing Tama-nishiki advanced to the centre of the ring, had himself photographed holding the traditional reward of a yokozuna: the huge silver Emperor's Cup. Sumo has nothing to do with jujitsu or its modernized form judo, the art of self-defense in 250 holds which is compulsory in all Japanese schools. Sumo started in 23 B.C., long before jujitsu had been thought of. Winner of the first bout on record, Sukune...
...favorite of such light-hearted Manhattan newshawks as Frank Ward O'Malley was Jacques Lebaudy, son of a French sugar tycoon, who in 1903 hatched a scheme for irrigating the Sahara Desert, proclaimed himself "Jacques I, Emperor of the Sahara," fitted out an expedition to conquer his new province. Routed, he sailed for the U. S., established himself in Westbury, L. I., furnished copy on dull days by such stunts as uniforming and drilling an army of messenger boys and farmhands. In 1919 his "Empress" shot him dead...