Word: empress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, cousin of the Tsar and leader of the world-scattered Russian Monarchists. Describing the contents of the urns, General Janin said: "To me fell the difficult charge of bringing to France, for the Grand Duke Nikolai, the remains of the Emperor Nicholas II, of the Empress, of the Tsarevitch Alexis, of the young Grand Duchesses and of two servants. These poor remains could no longer be separated. The ashes of the Sovereign were mixed with those of his faithful valets. All that was recognizable was a finger, held by experts to belong to the Empress because...
...years ago Geraldine Farrar, empress of Carmen, told a tumultuous and rather bitter farewell to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Farrar-fans roared vociferously, "tossed their sweaty nightcaps in the air," and bore off such prizes as they could from the ensuing auction sale of the prima donna's stage trappings...
...Theodore Roosevelt: "In recognition of the friendly services of my late husband to Japan, I, at Toyko, was entertained at a tea-party in the name of Her Majesty the Empress at the mansion of Prince Higashi Fushimi...
...following day, Sunday, the pair visited the Emperor and Empress at Namazu, went to Iso to announce their wedding to the great Emperor Jimmu (said to have ascended the throne in the year 660 B. C.) and to Yamada to do the same to the Emperor Momoyama...
Celebration. Japan rejoiced, but, due to the quake, postponed official public celebration until later in the year. Then a great banquet to officials and foreign diplomats will tell the people and foreign governments that Hirohito has the bride of his choice and that Japan has an Empress-Prospective...