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...Thence he was expected to make his own way to London. Again the fuzzy little papillon pattered at his heels. Farther behind followed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan and his 12-year-old brother, the Duke of Harar, both tricked out in European sack suits and derbies. The roly-poly Empress Menen remained in Jerusalem. The Emperor's party significantly traveled, not on League of Nations passports or British laissez-passer cards, but on Haile Selassie's own Ethiopian Government passports...
Ancient Chinese craftsmen, working in clear and cloudy amber, produced one of the most spectacular of the sets. The squares are alternately clear and cloudy amber, with mythical Oriental gods, beasts or fishes appearing through the transparent squares. The set is reputed to have belonged to the late Dowager Empress, who kept it in the ill-fated Summer Palace at Peiping...
...Sunday-feature writer could have bettered. A free-love back-to-nature colony on the little island of Flo-reana, peeped at and reported from time to time by curious yacht-trippers, had come to a boil, exploded. Two corpses had been found on a neighboring island. "The Empress of Floreana" and her No. 1 lover had disappeared (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934). Of the couple who had been the original settlers the man had mysteriously died. Last week U. S. readers could peruse the tale (ghosted) of the woman survivor whose narrative did not pretend to tell the whole truth...
...German baroness of dubious antecedents, uncertain age and still more ambiguous behavior. With her she brought several devoted men-followers. The Baroness soon had them all by the ears. She and Dore hated each other at sight, while Dr. Ritter held philosophically aloof. The Baroness called herself Empress of Floreana, planned to build a hotel and make the island into ''a sort of Miami...
...towering Queen-Empress did not appear. She was in bed with a broken toe from falling off a stepladder in her library while reaching for a book...