Word: mikado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paunchy President Gaston Doumergue of France received last week at the Elysee a lean, taut-waisted, owlishly spectacled Jap, Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado...
Prince Takamatsu, third son of the Mikado, recently arranged the unprecedented spectacle of a rowing race between princes of the blood and nobles of the imperial household. The prince is often to be seen skedaddling in a single scull...
Prince Takahito, eleven years old, youngest son of the Mikado, is already famous as an irrepressible and raucous baseball fan. When he attends one of the numerous interuniversity Japanese ball games a special dais is erected for him near third base, and he invariably insists that the game be played to a finish whether or not rain descends...
...Created Regent in 1921 on account of the continued infirmity of the still living Mikado Yoshihito...
...Japanese ordinarily refer to the Emperor as Tenno or Tenshi and speak of him as Kotei (a Chinese title meaning "Emperor) in discussing his relation to non-Japanese affairs. Only foreigners employ in conversation the poetic title Mikado...