Word: princess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cynical, complacent and evil-browed rulers, politicians, moguls, authors and social climbers which your columns must perforce exhibit, the charming figure of Princess Elizabeth [TIME, March 15] stands out like the morning star of human faith and hope. Alive, intelligent, eager, energetic, she is the quintessence of beauty ... a blessing to mankind. . . . A. W. SINCLAIR...
Thus began the last hour of Yoshiko's strange life. She was born, the Princess Chin Pi-hui (Radiant Jade) of the Manchu dynasty, overthrown in 1911 by China's Sun Yatsen. She had been adopted by a member of Japan's powerful Black Dragon society, renamed Yoshiko (Beautiful One), reared man-fashion in the warrior code of Nippon. As a girl she dedicated herself to the overthrow of the Chinese Republic and the restoration of her house. She became a Japanese spy, masquerading as a taxi-dancer, a Chinese soldier, even as a Korean prostitute (Chinese...
...night last week three inches of snow drifted down on the mosques, churches and synagogues of Jerusalem. In the sparkling morning, Jewish and Arab boys had a snowball fight across Princess Mary Avenue. Soon there would be different battles in that street...
...Died. Princess Helena Victoria, 77, spinster granddaughter of Queen Victoria; first cousin once removed of George VI ; after long illness ; in London. A bright court figure in her youth, she helped hasten the change from the conservative Victorian to the gay Edwardian era by sporting colorful clothes, dancing the latest steps, taking in dog races and speaking her mind frankly in public...
Yoshiko Kawashima said she was born a Manchu princess; she grew up to become a Japanese spy. In her career as the "Mata Hari of China," she posed variously as a Chinese soldier, a taxi driver, a Korean prostitute (Chinese officers always asked for Koreans, she explained), a schoolteacher...