Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On awkward sea legs, a stubby (5 ft. 2 in.) Japanese shambled last week into a white-walled ordnance classroom at the Washington Navy Yard. He wore a poor-quality, ill-fitting blue suit; there was nothing in his bearing or his sagjawed face, as expressionless as a teak deck...
The French Empire shrank slightly last week. With Gallic grace, France agreed to step out of Syria and the Lebanon-and the Near East. Thus an imperial association which lasted for a generation came, at least temporarily, to a close.
Ah, but Gods of Heaven and Earth, Do, I pray Ye, let our Imperial Family Enjoy everlasting glory And eternal prosperity.
In the bastion of empire the proconsuls gathered. To Singapore, at the request of handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied "Supremo" for Southeast Asia, hurried Britain's genial Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison, commander in Indonesia; France's dashing Major General Jacques Leclerc, commander in Indo-China; Holland'...
Hirohito has been inaccessible to Allied correspondents since last September, when the U.P.'s Hugh Baillie and New York Timesman Frank Kluckhohn interviewed him, severally. But the press does not give up. Every week one crafty newsman, who knows the Emperor's fondness for sweets, sends a 3...