Word: imperiale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In St. Petersburg in the winter, Igor loved to prowl among the operatic scores of his father, Feodor, a famed basso who was Chaliapin's predecessor at the Imperial Opera. Young Igor was given a "piano mistress" at nine, quickly learned to read music-and improvise. His parents did...
Rumors that Emperor Hirohito would soon step down from the throne were freely aired last week in the Japanese press. Said an Imperial Household spokesman: the stories were nonsense.
Crown Prince Akihito, 14, is unsmirched by the war: to Japanese, he would be a spotless symbol. The prevalent view last week was that Hirohito would abdicate in his son's favor, with Hirohito's brother, Prince Takamatsu, assuming a regency until Akihito comes of age. Many Japanese...
Meanwhile further cuts in the Imperial Household budget seemed likely, and Premier Hitoshi Ashida put the boot to some of Hirohito's old-guard retainers, who still wore striped pants and cutaways, still called the Emperor O-kami (Honorable God). Imperial Grand Steward Yoshitami Matsudaira, a palace henchman for...
Turning to Plato's Republic for guidance, young Hahn designed a stern academy to "molest" the contentedly unfit.* In 1920, in the castle of Prince Max of Baden, last Imperial chancellor, Hahn took the Prince's son and three neighborhood children as his first pupils. By the time...