Word: empresse
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...Satsuma Empress, In the new Cabinet Baron Yamamoto, the Home Minister, is a Satsuma. In Japan it is an axiom that "The Home Ministry makes the election." Why did the Son of Heaven consent to a Satsuma in this key post? Court gossip had it last week that Emperor HirohitO' and his ancient adviser Prince Saionji, 83, had both been swayed by another adviser who is the Son of Heaven's close friend, Count Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal-a Satsuma...
...that is true. But the vanished Kipling is but the vanished empire, the current which vitalized Kipling was the imperial spirit of the Victorian age. A new race, which knows not the white man's burden, is at work. The White Hussars no longer drink to Queen and Empress in broken glass, and respect for the Sahib has ceased to awe the naygurs. Lalum, who was like unto Lilith, now imitates her western sisters as she sees them portrayed in the cinema...
King Prajadhipok of Siam, restored to almost normal eyesight by his U. S. operation (TIME, May 18,. now looks at Bangkok with one eye through clear glass, with the other eye through faintly brown glass, according to passengers on the world-cruiser Empress of Britain which returned to Manhattan last week carrying 95 widows and 336 other passengers. Notables: June, famed London actress, divorced wife of Lord Inverclyde, who boarded ship at San Francisco as did her onetime friend Woolf Barnato (son of the late South African Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato) with his bride...
Forty feet underground in the vault of London Safe Deposit Co., the Queen-Empress used her key, locked up a packet she had brought from Buckingham Palace...
...stepdaughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, in a notable book published last week tells Mozart's story.* The elder Mozart stalked patrons for his son until he was grown. The family needed money but rings and snuffboxes often paid for 18th Century music. Little, bewigged Mozart sat on the Empress Maria Theresa's ample lap. Once he was permitted to watch Louis XV eat. But with all his genius he never found one large-hearted patron on whom he could depend. He married an amiable, unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth for six years out of their union...