Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since 70% of Bolivians are Indians, and since those who revolted last week are of the ancient and once imperial Inca strain, their rioting, burning of haciendas, and murdering of numerous white landlords could be considered the acts of a downtrodden people, righteously aroused at last.
By a sort of poetic justice Premier Tanaka is himself the son of a poor servant woman who had not even the rank of "honorable concubine" in the household of the onetime feudal lord, Mori. The servant's child displayed such unmistakable quickness and power in mind and body...
Solemn priests of the Shinto faith entered the private apartments of Her Majesty, the Empress Nagako, at Tokyo last week, and reverently wound about her waist an obi of purest white silk some twelve feet long. Previously this girdle had been purified and made sacred at the Imperial Shrine. Its...
Spontaneous rejoicing burst forth, however, when it was announced that a crane had been seen to flap sedately three times around the Imperial Palace: a man-symbol, according to Japanese.
Walker's Imperial 2.75 3.10