Word: empresse
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...filled with cotton seeds ("Just what we need here!"). Picasso glanced eagerly at the family photographs, turned the occasion into an old home week with his comments: Nephew Jaime-"He looks just like the Count of Paris"; Dona Lola-"She resembles a bullfighter's mother or a Roman empress"; their apartment-"Why, they live better than I do!"* "Good! Good!" Glancing at L'Oeil's pictures of his old works, Picasso searched in vain for the name of his Spanish model, explaining: "We called her 'La saucisse' [ the sausage]." Then, spotting a rare 1904 engraving...
When Belisarius and the Eunuch Narses conquered Italy for Justinian in 540, they re-established Ravenna as the Western capital of the Byzantine empire. Justinian and Theodora, his empress, ordered it suitably adorned. The rendering of Christ in armor for the Archbishop's Chapel, a rare phenomenon in art, may reflect the warlike nature of the Byzantines, who held the view that Christianity could and should be spread by the sword. But the Ravenna Christ looks more loving than awesome. A beardless youth, He lightly treads the lion and the serpent while presenting His eternal promise...
...fund campaigns often mean the difference between life and death for an orchestra. One of the grandest of all musical, grandes dames in the U.S. is Houston's Miss Ima Hogg,† seventyish daughter of Texas' wealthy Governor (1890-95) Jim Hogg. She reigns as an absolute empress, and Houston Junior Leaguers have learned that the only sure way to her is through the symphony. When "Miss Ima" starts her annual fund drive at her mansion on Lazy Lane, the Houston girls fall all over their pretty feet to help, and the result is usually...
Never had Anthony Eden seemed more quietly confident or the Tory faithful more pleased with him. In Blackpool's Empress ballroom, 4,100 delegates to the annual Tory Party conference gave him a two-minute ovation and burst into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Even dapper Julian Amery, who last year led the diehard imperialists in an attack on Eden's decision to evacuate Suez, had only praise for Eden's achievements at the London Conference: "Far from renouncing our imperial mission, this gives us the chance to lead the world once more...
...Dubucq de Rivery (1763-1817), cousin of Napoleon's Empress Josephine, had passivity thrust upon her. Abducted by Corsairs while en route home to Martinique from a convent in Nantes, Aimée was given as a present to Turkish Sultan Abd ül Hamid I, who popped her into his harem. At first, convent-bred Aimée violently resisted a fate worse than death, but at last came to agree with the Arab maxim: "Woman succeeds where man fails, for woman knows when to yield." Aimée became the Sultan's favorite, and lived...