Word: empress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's George V ordered for self and Queen-Empress last week five superluxe motor cars, all 12-cylinder Daimlers. Total cost: $65,610. Smart Royal reason: "Their Majesties hope, by setting an example, to assist in relieving unemployment during the winter months...
Last week Methodist Bishop Herbert Welch (North) was on the Pacific coast. The first week of September he will sail from Vancouver for Korea on the Empress of Japan. With him will be Bishop James Chamberlain Baker (North) of Korea. At Seoul they will convene with Bishop William Benjamin Beauchamp (South), seven other U. S. Methodist clergymen and ten Koreans to organize a Methodist Church of Korea...
...clerk and a mendicant monk were taken from a train at Prague last week, charged with high treason against the Republic of Czechoslovakia. Old world diplomats studying the case grinned in their beards, figuratively doffed their cocked hats to dowdy, indomitable Zita of Bourbon-Parme, ex-Empress of Austria-Hungary. In the baggage of the clerk and the mendicant monk (Felix Christian and Father Charles Otto by name) were some typical royalist pamphlets. More interesting were bundles and bundles of membership blanks for a League of Prayer the object of which is the formal beatification of the ex-Habsburg Emperor...
...Empress Zita and her followers are not attempting to make Kaiser Karl a Saint. Catholicism recognizes three degrees of sanctity: Venerable X, Blessed Y, Saint Z. Both the last two degrees require proof of at least two miracles. Blessed Y may be venerated in certain designated churches, Saint Z must be venerated in all churches...
...does choose, a way was at least indicated last week. Archduke Rainer Carl, an unimportant, very distant cousin, died in penury in Vienna a few days after Albrecht acclaimed Otto. Wily ex-Empress Zita, Otto's mother, saw in the death a chance to bring all remaining Habsburgs under her son's banner. Magnificently she ordered a royal funeral for the pauper, had him interred next to the bones of Emperor Franz Josef and for the first time in more than a decade Vienna saw the yellow and black flag of the Habsburgs on public view...