Word: empresse
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...Duce last week troubled himself more about the dusky races on both sides of the Red Sea who insist on payment in the broad silver Maria Theresa dollars. These thalers are nothing but disks of silver struck in Vienna with the likeness of Austria's long dead Empress.* Silver collected from Italians last week and minted into Maria Theresa dollars was impressed with Maria Theresa's death date, 1780, only date considered any good by Ethiopian chiefs whom Signor Mussolini expects to bribe to desert their Emperor, as well as by Arab sheiks whom II Duce plans...
...devout peasantry no assertion could have been more monstrous. In 1919 as an act of Marxist right and mass justice the Imperial and Royal House of Habsburg?they of the curling ''Habsburg lip" ?were stripped of their lands and property down to the very nightgown of fugitive Empress Zita. Spurned by a Socialist Austrian Government, which exercised mercy only in saving the Habsburgs from being butchered as the Romanovs were butchered, Little Otto's uninspiring father, Kaiser Karl, was allowed to slip away and die on the Island of Madeira. Last week the double eagle of the Habsburgs screamed...
...autocratic ruler, His Majesty King Ibn Saud. As usual, the Buckingham presentations were of no significance, but men who know the Near East saw a sign and portent of British prestige in Arabia's great new State as its Crown Prince took his respectful stand near the Queen-Empress...
...opinion other women should employ the same basis for such jewels as they have to show. This year the Lord Chamberlain has been dutifully hinting the royal pleasure to dowagers and debutantes, but with scant result at the season's first two Royal Courts. Last week the Queen-Empress, not wishing to be the only low-necked woman at the last two Royal Courts, had the Lord Chamberlain's Office issue this mandatory ukase: "Ladies attending Their Majesties' Courts must wear low evening dresses...
...Empress, Catherine was a hardworking success. She got up at dawn, worked 15 hours a day. She was no voluptuous debauchee: "her love-life resembled that of an important business man; it was simple, very sentimental, and rather pathetic." Catherine found her liberal-philosophizing theories sharply modified by the experience of ruling Russia. When Philosopher Diderot reproached her for her change of heart, she replied: "You philosophers are fortunate people. You write on patient paper-I, poor empress, am forced to write upon the ticklish skin of human beings." Darkest blot on her scutcheon was the murder of Ivan...