Word: imperiale
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Emperor Hirohito was anxious to do everything in accordance with Japan's new democracy-or at least in compromise with it. Instead of arranging his second daughter's marriage through a go-between in the time-honored way, he sent his frock-coated vice chief chamberlain directly to...
"It's chudo-the middle way," explained a palace confidant, "neither love match nor arranged marriage." Pretty, 20-year-old Princess Kazuko had begun preparing for marriage two years ago by learning to cook, sew and sweep floors in the home of one of the Emperor's former...
* Thus ignoring nine other Michaels among his putative imperial ancestors, including Michael III (the Drunkard) and Michael IV (the Tickler). Michael IV was valet to the Emperor Romanus, who used to call Michael in to tickle the soles of his feet. Romanus' wife, the Empress Zoe, fell in love...
Behind the pillared portico of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, built by an imperial czar, the imperial commissars held jubilee last week on the 26th anniversary of holy Lenin's death. Present for the annual memorial address were the new Red masters of China, Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who...
Hope & Heart. The Chinese came to Hainan in in B.C. For centuries the island was a torrid Siberia where imperial dynasts often dumped political foes. * Between 1939 and 1945 the Japanese transformed Hainan into another kind of imperial base. On the undeveloped, malarial outpost, they established military camps, dredged a...