Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"This, Madam," said the imperial ghost, "is no strange place to me. It is our former estate of Livadia. Allow me to cite the Intourist's Pocket Guide to the Soviet Union: 'This estate occupies 350 hectares of land, and includes a large park, two palaces and many...
Actor-Producer Orson Welles's troubles with his seven-year-old cinema Citizen Kane (which William Randolph Hearst refused to advertise in his papers) were still following him. Filed in a Manhattan court by Biographer Ferdinand Lundberg: a suit for damages (amount unspecified), charging that Wonder Boy Welles had...
In nearby St. James's Palace the wedding presents were being laid out and catalogued. Among them were a set of Peking carpets from British expatriates in China, a dressing case fitted in tortoise shell from the city of Paris, twelve wedding cakes from Imperial outposts, some rubies from...
During his lifetime, Su wrote 1,700 poems, 800 private letters and at least 800 imperial edicts in his capacity as secretary to the emperor (he could have been premier had he not disliked the politics he had perforce to engage in). "What is the use of occupying a high...
And how equally admirable, he said, was it that Britain, another great and ancient nation, even grander and far more benign in her twilight than Imperial Rome before her, had at length bowed before that moral force in a moral beauty as unprecedented and still more graceful. The Defense Attorney...