Word: mikado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zermatt. Wise tourists, bedded at luxurious Gornergrat, rose early and viewed the dawn-pink Alpine panorama on which the Matterhorn looms as but one of many peaks. From Gornergrat the yellow specks could not be seen-yet one of them was Prince Chichibu of Japan, second son of the Mikado, indefatigable Alpinist (TIME, Sept. 6 et ante...
...Bernese Alps. Down to the famed Jungfrau Joch Hotel. Up the Schreckhorn, 13,386 ft. Down to Grindelwald. FOOD. A steak as thick as the climber's thong-bound wrist. Such was the Alpine exploit performed in one day last week by Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado of Japan, first Alpinist to scale either the Finsteraarhorn or the Schreckhorn this year...
...narrow slanting eyes peeped last week above the topmost crag of the famed Wetterhorn.* Seven hours before, three Japanese and five Swiss guides had set out from Grindelwald. He who peeped royally from the summit, was Prince Chichibu of Japan, second son of the Mikado. As everyone knows, he has wintered and disported himself in Switzerland, has survived an ankle strained while skating and ensuing measles (TIME...
Oriental royalty in the person of Prince Yasuhito Chichibuno-miya, second son of the Mikado, deigned to dine last week with able Californian hostess Mrs. Newton Booth Knox at London. Present also was able Californian tennis player Helen Wills...
Shortly before his death, the aged Field Marshal was present at the Imperial Shrine, in Tokyo, when a sleepy-eyed great-granddaughter of "The Restorer," Mikado Meiji, was presented to her Imperial grandfather. The tiny Princess Teru-No-Miya Shigeko, born only last December (TIME, Dec. 14), cooed at Field Marshal Viscount Kawamura. A question seemed lurking in his eyes. It is not known how great a destiny awaits Japan in the Princess' lifetime...