Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple, believing rustic was dragged away, the "Son of Heaven" looked down compassionately through spectacles, from his great Louis XIV State Coach. Above the gorgeous vehicle a golden phoenix perched with wings spread-symbol of divine and inextinguishable Radiance. If the little slant-eyed man in spectacles really believes that he can talk with his Divine Ancestress Amaterasu-0-Mikami-as he is supposed to do several times a year-the farmer's plea must have stirred in His Majesty strange emotions...
...State Coach clattered into Parliament Square and drew up, Emperor Hirohito stepped nimbly down, as though nothing had happened, and was received by members of the Kizokuin (House of Peers) and the Shugiin (Commons), standing at stiff attention in the open air. Soon, beneath the vault of Heaven, the Son of Heaven pronounced in high, piercing, rapid syllables the traditional Four Sentences, opening Parliament...
...part in the ceremony, her motherly and grandmotherly heart could not be otherwise than quickening and aglow. The Speech from the Throne (of her six-year-old grandson King Mihai) was about to be read by Prince Nicholas of Rumania (her slightly weak-chinned 25-year-old son), thus opening the first freely-elected Parliament in the history of the Kingdom...
Additional Christian Cabinet Ministers are: C. T. Wang (Foreign Affairs), T. V. Soong (Finance), Chung Hui (Justice) and Sun Fo (Railways) son of the late founder of the Nationalist Party great Dr. Sun Yatsen...
...slightest shred of evidence that Jesus ever rose from the dead." Christians are all wrong because they don't understand the really great things Jesus did, such as wage war on Church and State. Christians are misguided, too, when they apotheosize the carpenter who loved the title "Son...