Word: empresse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anastasia. At Berlin the Danish Minister, Herlui Zahle, confirmed rumors that King Christian X of Denmark has been assisting his aunt, the aged Dowager Empress Dagmar, widow of Tsar Alexander III, to pursue a careful inquiry as to whether a certain "Frau von Tchaikovski" now in a Berlin sanitarium is really the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. "Frau von Tchaikovski" is suffering from complete nervous and mental breakdown, and bears the scars of bullet wounds on her scalp and abdomen. Two former servants of the Grand Duchess Anastasia have positively identified...
...Potsdam 74-year-old General Cixt von Arnim opened proceedings incident to the unveiling of a War monument, as follows: "I have the high honor, which His Majesty the Emperor and King entrusted to me, to dedicate this memorial to the Guard Regiment of the Empress Augusta Victoria. . . . The chief duty for us all is the fulfillment of our duty and loyalty to the articles of war and the oath to the flag which we swore to His Majesty...
...England went His Royal Highness Prince Chichibu-no-miya Yasuhito, second son of the Emperor and Empress. The object of the Prince's visit is to study social science at Oxford and the London School of Economics...
...EDUCATION). She remembered the first steam engine and the first balloon. She remembered the days when children honied from school blackened and blued by the schoolmaster's rod. She had seen George V throned and Edward VII laid away. She had seen the great Victoria, Queen and Empress, go to her last rest and, 64 years earlier, had seen the girl Victoria take the crown. She had seen the entire reign of William IV. And in 1830, at the age of 5-two years after she had mastered the little hieroglyphics that are the alphabet-she remembered donning...
...Great Catherine", the play was the thing rather than the interpretation of the players. It is a piece of gorgeous satire and rollicking wit. The burden of the plot concerns the efforts of an English officer at the court to keep free of the entangling wiles of the empress. Alan Mowbray, in the part, succeeded in doing this, but he did not develop a very consistent or convincing character. Jessamine Newcombe portrayed the imperial Catherine, lovely, regal, and almost barbaric enough, while Mr. Hulse was a glorious drunken chancellor whom G. B. S. very kindly provided with lines sufficiently scintillating...