Word: imperiale
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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...
Died. Edgar Montillion Woolley, 74, onetime Yale drama professor whose magnificent white beard ("the historic trademark of genius") and outrageously imperial mien made him the perfect Man Who Came to Dinner, a role he first played on Broadway in 1939, continued on stage, screen, TV and in private for the...