Word: empresse
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...watching her handle a third-rate song can compensate for its third-rateness. Whatever her stage environment-riding an ocean liner or bucking the Main Line, singing of a dead husband or chatting with a live horse-she has the urgency of a steam calliope, the assurance of an empress, and a likable low-downness all her own. The Ethel Merman who began as little more than wonderfully lusty vocal cords has expanded and grown into an expertly manipulated stage personality; and in a show business that so often turns the funny into the vulgar, she consistently converts vulgarity into...
...people saw it, and by last year the entire original production cost of $125,000 was paid off.) Georges Van Parys, one of France's best-known movie composers, did the music for the simpler spectacle at Compiègne, the rural pleasure dome of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie. Other pageants are staged at Avignon, 14th century home of the exiled Popes; at Chenonceaux, onetime home of Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry...
...Name of Almighty God Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India; His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia; His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, etc., and Apostolic King of Hungary; His Majesty the King of Spain and in the name of the Queen Regent of the Kingdom; the President of the French Republic; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the King of The Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, etc.; His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias; His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottomans...
...area seldom explored and inadequately mapped, has been in dispute ever since the British seized Upper Burma in 1885. On a variety of dubious grounds, including the fact that a 9th century Burmese kingdom once paid tribute to China's T'ang emperors, Chinese rulers from the Empress Dowager to Chiang Kai-shek claimed large chunks of northern Burma. The Chinese Reds, after their conquest of mainland China in 1949, redrew the map to show the disputed areas as part of China, and then waited for history to confirm their...
Married. Archduchess Charlotte of Habsburg, 35, middle daughter of Empress Zita and the late Charles I (last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), sister of Austrian Pretender Archduke Otto of Habsburg, and longtime (1943-56) welfare worker (under the name of Charlotte de Bar) in Manhattan's East Harlem; and Duke George of Mecklenburg, 56; she for the first time, he for the second; in Pocking, Germany...