Word: empresse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Imperial Majesty, the Sublime Empress Sadako of Japan, failed, last week, for the first time in several years to preside at the annual Chrysanthemum Garden Party attended by 5,000 guests at the Akasaka Palace, Tokyo...
Shrewd, the councilors of the now diseased Emperor chose as his wife Princess Sadako of the house of Kujo, a family celebrated for its prodigious vitality and proliferousness. She, a sturdy Empress, has deserved well of Nippon...
...made generally public (TIME, Oct. 18). Princeton men remembered that Mr. Buchman had been forbidden to practice his calling upon their campus two years ago, but not until last fortnight did they realize why. Then, last week, Mr. Buchman returned to the U. S. from a call to the Empress of Siam. Soon his presence was reported in Princeton. Denied access to the campus he was receiving young men at his lodging in the town. Realizing that among the first to visit Mr. Buchman would most likely be the leaders of the campus religious organization, the Philadelphian Society, the students...
...Soul Surgeon" Frank N. D. Buchman, exponent of an extraordinary technique for saving souls which has only recently come to public attention (TIME, Oct. 18), returned last week to the U. S. from Siam, having been called thither for consultation by the plump and moon-faced empress...
Juarez and Maximilian. History mentions one Maximilian, a Habsburg, appointed Emperor of Mexico by Napoleon Bonaparte; records a successful revolution led by Juarez, the untimely defection of Napoleon's troops, execution of Maximilian. More colorful chronicles relate that Maximilian's proud empress, failing to obtain aid from royal kin in Europe, became insane, another victim of the "curse of the Habsburgs," which has bloodied every generation of that ill-starred line with murder and violence...