Word: eldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heavenly King.** Immediately after Yoshihito Tenno's death his eldest son Hirohito (since 1921 Prince Regent on account of his father's invalidism) assumed imperial rank in a room adjoining the death chamber. He will not be crowned until 1928, since the period of mourning in the Imperial Household will be protracted one year after the Tenno's death. None the less Hirohito Tenno received last week the Privy Seal and various imitations of the sacred symbols of his office?the sword, the mirror and the beads?the originals of these treasures reposing in various shrines throughout Japan...
...taken only a glass of milk and some cheese for supper, and soon he would be 81, and the doctors had spoken of apoplexy? but he was Pashitch. A crisis threatened, and King Alexander was waiting. When his coat was brought M. Pashitch slung it about him, kissed his eldest daughter gravely, and rolled away in his limousine...
Died. Esme Howard, 22, eldest son of the Right Honorable Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.; in London; after an illness of several years' duration. The Ambassador, one of the most respected and popular in the diplomatic corps at Washington, returned to England a month ago when his son's condition appeared critical and was with him when he died...
Carol. Rumanians scanned with closest interest last week not reports of Her Majesty's voyage or reception but accounts of her reconciliation just before she left Paris with her eldest son, the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania (TIME, Jan. 11 et seq.). On the night before her departure Queen Marie secretly welcomed Carol to a family souper intime in her suite at the Ritz Hotel, Paris. Next morning Carol before scores of clicking cameras, and saw glistening a queenly tear. Premature reports that former Premier Bratiano was hurrying to Paris and would there deliver to Carol documents restoring...
Almost the only one of Queen Marie's children not in the public eye with her last week was, therefore, her eldest daughter, the deposed Queen Elizabeth of Greece...