Word: empresse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Palmer House Hotel was built, the castle was built in 1885. Thence Mrs. Palmer ruled as absolute empress of society; her invitations an accolade, a command. At the World's Fair, she was hostess to the Infanta Eulalie of Spain; Duke and Duchess d'Aragona, descendants of Columbus; Princess Schahovska, Prince Cernoski, and Prince Isenberg of Russia. Mrs. Palmer summoned, too, Prince Henry of Prussia. Prince Henry was disdainful. "Is royalty to be guest of an innkeeper's wife?" Royalty was. Prince Henry came...
...last week, the King-Emperor slipped on his silk stockings, donned regal robes and with the Queen-Empress drove from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster, where sit at their Parliamentary sessions the Lords & Commons...
Resplendently clad Peers and heavily robed bishops rose. In the galleries diamonded Peeresses stared, rustled, bowed. Lights blazed and kindled the darting iridescences of a thousand gems. No gem, however, burned more richly than the famous Cullinan Diamond which, as all could see, the Queen-Empress was wearing...
...Governor-General of the Union of South Africa is the Earl of Athene, brother of Queen-Empress Mary. When General Hertzog marched in with the collective resignation of the Cabinet, Her Majesty's brother saw to it that he marched right out again with a mandate to form a new Cabinet. This the General instantly did, appointing the Rt. Hon. H. W. Sampson to be Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, and recalling all his other ministers to their posts. Unofficially the peppery Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that the Laborites have now come out squarely on the issue of social...
...music-loving Vienna. Her fame grew with her repertoire. A beautiful prima donna has always seemed a phenomenon. Here was one magnificently built, with sea-blue eyes and golden hair. The public raved. Composers made their music for her. She created Strauss' Ariadne, later the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten. She was his Salome, his Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). He saw her in Max Reinhardt's revival of Offenbach's Belle Hélène and an idea was born. It simmered and swelled until last winter he finished for her his Helen...