Word: empress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first two days after the King's arrival in Paris half the exiled Royalty of Europe flocked to the hotel with messages of condolence. Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians called, so did ex-Empress Zita of Austria (Alfonso gave her refuge in Madrid after her downfall). So did Prince Nicholas of Greece, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia. After a day hectic with worry, exhaustion and despair, word came up that Marie of Rumania was downstairs...
Fifty harps twanged Mendelssohn's "Wedding March." Imposing, the Cathedral of Palermo had been hung with rich tapestries, decked with carloads of flowers and on view was the Cathedral treasure: a sacred stole blazing with Byzantine gems which once studded the mantle of the Empress Constantia. But as he knelt at the altar beside Princess Isabelle last week the Count of Paris was garbed in a mere cutaway, his richest ornament a gardenia...
...Imperial Palace, the Son of Heaven collared King Prajadhipok with the Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum with Collar. Queen Rambai received from His Imperial Majesty the Order of the Sacred Crown First Class, and from Her Imperial Majesty a symbolic Japanese doll richly bedight. Neither Queen nor Empress has ever had a son. Sorrow unites them...
Statue of Liberty Puzzle. Conspicuous in the Royal Party as they sailed from Japan for Vancouver in the S. S. Empress of Japan was handsome, majestic old Prince Svasti, father of Queen Rambai...
...exhorts him as he starts, exalts him in a hymnlike way at the finish. During the flight a baritone radios all ships to watch out for him. A bass solo, with the smoothest music in the cantata, urges him to sleep. The chorus takes turns representing the S. S. Empress of Scotland, the fog and ice which beset Lindbergh during the night, the optimism of Americans, the pessimism of the French due to their recent loss of Nungesser, the jubilation when the plane is sighted over Le Bourget flying field...