Word: empresse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This cumbersome title represents a neat straddle. Mr. Asquith would have been honored out of all proportion to his services to the Crown had he received the earldom of Oxford, originally conferred by the Empress Matilda on Aubrey de Vere in 1142 and accordingly weighted with hoary honors beyond expression. By adding "and Asquith," the powers-that-be adroitly earmarked as of recent bestowal a title held in its day by what Macaulay described as "the most illustrious line of nobles that England has seen...
...What did Empress Eugenie do for Manet...
...brush as broad as a glance of the eye; Monet put his color on in tiny dots. Manet saw life as a gleam; Monet saw it as a shimmer. It was late in life that Manet came to recognition; he was laughed at until a day when the Empress Eugenie stood in front of a canvas of his and said, "Oh, I like that. ..." He has made money for the people who bought his early pictures...
...House of Habsburg as the one authority under which they have ever been peaceably united. France and her allies have stood guard sleeplessly since the War, lest "the heir apparent," Prince Otto of Habsburg (still a child and residing in Spain with his mother, the former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary), be "restored," or the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg seize the throne...
...promoted the first taxi company in Australia and made a fortune when Australia did nobly by its Nell. But there are anecdotes, many of them priceless, gossipy friendly ones, about such famed folk as Sarah Bernhardt, who coached her Marguerite; Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who flicked his fin gers and the Empress followed; King Edward VII, who felt obliged to discuss affairs of state all through her singing; Oscar Wilde, the last time she saw him a "tall, shabby man, his collar turned up to his neck," who stopped her on a Paris street to ask for money; Ellen Terry, Charlie Chaplin...