Word: empresse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bearing the Duke and Duchess of York (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.), news came that the Duchess had devised a special code before leaving England in which radio messages are sent to her concerning the health of her baby, Princess Elizabeth, now under the personal care of the Queen-Empress Mary. Flower names were chosen by the Duchess as baby code words. Rose: well and happy. Dogwood: whooping cough. Lily: sleeps well. Snapdragon: colic...
Prince Chichibu, sporting heir-apparent to the throne, arrived in Tokyo last week. Popular, he was greeted by 10,000 marshalled school children. Respectful, he hurried to his mother, the Empress Dowager and his elder brother, the Emperor. Pious, he did worship at the casket of his father, the late Tenno Yoshihito...
...must turn back to the revolution of 1898 and the events immediately following it. The young emperor at that time was a decided progressive, and with the collaboration of three of his ministers, started on a policy of reform. His revolutionary and progressive ideas roused the anger of the Empress dowager, who ordered the leaders' arrest. One of the ministers escaped to Japan, where he wrote a volume about his progressive ideas...
...sight the Archduke Albrecht has been paying court to the Italian Princess Giovanni and seems to be at least a Habsburg chin ahead of his Hohenzollern and Wittelbach competitors. That the family fortunes fully warrant this recourse to the final remedy is illustrated by the spectacles of the Empress of Mexico dying in Belgium and of the Empress of Austria living in Madiera...
...Jacobs has always painted celebrities. She used to paint familiar celebrities; her picture of Mrs. Coolidge hangs in the White House. Recently Mrs. Leonebel Jacobs went to China; last week in Manhattan she exhibited the faces of certain ladies and gentlemen few westerners have looked upon. The deposed Empress of the Manchus looks out under a headdress of cultured, decadent and nameless flowers. Prince Pu, with European hair, has the clear intelligent gaze of a Pekinese. There is Hsuan Tung, a petal-faced youth, the deposed Emperor; others, in stiff silk, noblemen, princes, knights. Mrs. Jacobs, a clever and sophisticated...