Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zita insisted that Otto be accorded the full privileges of his rank, rose and curtsied when he entered a room, and called him "Your Imperial Highness." A thoughtful, scholarly youth, Otto studied at Belgium's Louvain University, by his serious demeanor stood off phalanxes of eligible European princesses. When...
In the cavernous, thatch-roofed banquet hall of Addis Ababa's Menelik Palace, 30 colorfully garbed African heads of state and 2,000 other guests, all back-slapping and jovial, were feasting at the board of their medaled host, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. As waiters in green-and-gold...
The demoralized diplomats are all for pulling out when the fireworks begin, but Ambassador Niven-gnawing his mustache to denote deep thought-counsels them to stay put, walk softly and hope for the best. Soon hordes of murderous Boxers swarm over the compound, knifing, shooting, burning. Imperial Chinese troops join...
It cost $9,000,000 worth of unrepatriated pesetas to erect a fullscale replica of Peking in the plains of Spain, to populate it with 6,500 assorted movie stars, Spaniards and Chinese extras, and to blow the whole thing up at the end. Pictorially, the film is magnificent, and...
Beaverbrook's chosen champion was melancholy Bonar Law, a fellow Canadian who as leader of the Tory Party in 1916 had helped bring Lloyd George to power, only to resign four years later. Ailing and self-effacing, Law was a reluctant matador. But by suasion and sly pressure, Beaverbrook...