Word: empresse
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...Chapel Royal sang hymns. The royal family, present with the notable exception of Edward of Wales, bowed their heads in prayer, while the baby princess, oblivious of the fact that she was wearing her great-great-grandmother's clothes?the ivory satin and lace christening dress of Queen-Empress Victoria?continued to gurgle. When the christening of Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret Rose of York was completed, the entire party adjourned to drink tea, nibble slices of a 90-lb. christening cake...
...roads, waking up a land which has slept for 5,000 years. For his Coronation on Nov. 2 he decreed this striking ceremony: the people to stand all night in a vast multitude around the Coptic Cathedral of St. George, each standee holding a lighted candle; the Emperor and Empress to pass an all-night vigil inside St. George's, then to be crowned amid solemn chanting by the Coptic Abuna (Our Father) Egyptian Archbishop of Abyssinia...
...that historic moment every Red sailor felt the power of the Soviet Republic-a power which forced the representatives of English imperialism to hoist the hated Red flag and forced the band, accustomed to glorify the might of Britain, Empress of the Seas, to play the Internationale, summoning to battle all those oppressed by capitalism...
Britain's George V ordered for self and Queen-Empress last week five superluxe motor cars, all 12-cylinder Daimlers. Total cost: $65,610. Smart Royal reason: "Their Majesties hope, by setting an example, to assist in relieving unemployment during the winter months...
This fisticuffer's son went soldiering when a sprig of 17, wangled his way up in the hard-boiled Indian Service of Empress Victoria from Private to Sergeant Major, returned to help his father with house agenting, but drifted into Law. Thus when Frederick Edwin Smith was born at Birkenhead, on July 12, 1872, he inherited by right a wildcat's pugnacity and brawn, an old campaigner's slyness, a lawyer's bent...