Word: empresse
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...ivory-colored dress stepped out of the limousine in front of the Tokyo palace of Crown Prince Akihito, it was all that the police could do to restrain the 8,000 cheering teen-agers from mobbing her. "Suteki! Suteki!" the teen-agers cried -"Glorious! Glorious! Our future Empress!'' Michiko Shoda, 24, daughter of a flour magnate, and the first commoner in at least 15 centuries to be betrothed to the heir to the Japanese throne, had come with her parents to pay a ceremonial call on the young prince. After the usual formalities, the prince's tutor...
Only the day before, the ten members of the Imperial Council, all solemn and tense except for a smiling Prime Minister Kishi, had met to go through the motions of approving a bride who would be qualified to be Empress of Japan some day. As if to convince the council that the long (seven years) and expensive (nearly $1,000,000) search for a princess had not been a waste, the Director of the Imperial Household declared that while the Crown Prince's wishes had been considered, it was the Imperial Council who had in the end found "Miss...
Lines that were out of business started up again, new ones were organized. The owner of Germany's Hanseatic is the new transatlantic Hamburg-Atlantic Line, which was formed in 1957, paid out $3,000,000 for the 28-year-old Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Scotland. The Hanseatic was completely refurbished (sixth deck, new aluminum superstructure, new stacks) in Hamburg's Howaldtswerke yard by 2,000 artisans who worked around the clock to finish it in six months...
...what Manhattan's Seventh Avenue already knew: the sack is sacked and the chemise gets the breeze (TIME, June 30). At the Paris showings, the new look was an old one-the Empire style, first devised by the ancient Greeks and popularized in the 19th century by the Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon. Its chief characteristics: a bosomy neckline, a high waist pulled in just below the bust, a flowing, bell-like skirt...
...mere word Jeeves with a mental picture of a whole society; while to those who lap him up, a whole corner of mental life is occupied by such characters as Lord Emsworth, Lord ("Uncle Fred") Ickenham, Bertie Wooster, Mr. Mulliner, Psmith and that great Sheba of sows, "Empress of Blandings...