Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor of Scientist Dr. Hidelci Yukawa, Nobel Prizewinner in physics who is now teaching at Columbia University, Emperor Hirohito whittled out a bit of Japanese verse: / am very pleased to see The news in this morning's paper...
Charles V, Habsburg Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, once picked up a paintbrush Titian had dropped and handed it to him with the words, "Titian deserves to be served by Caesar." The female magnificence of Titian's Danae and the male craftiness of his Pope Paul III in last week's show confirmed the emperor's judgment. Philip IV, Habsburg King of Spain, had patronized Diego Velasquez, whose pictures of the king's little daughter, the stiffly costumed Infanta Margareta Teresa, were among the most brilliant and humanly pathetic portraits ever painted...
...madness, a modern man believes himself to be Henry IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He had been masquerading as such at a party on the night that he fell from his horse. As a result of this accident, he became mad and continued to play the part in a setting created by his friends--exactly like that of the historical Henry IV. After twelve years he regained objectivity but preferred to continue playing the emperor. If I understood correctly, the degree of his lucidity varies from time to time: Pirandello wanted to show that we are different people...
Prince Akihito, heir to the Japanese throne, who will be 16 in December, had to get along with a secondhand sack suit as his first grownup outfit. Emperor Hirohito agreed that his son should have a man's suit, but it seemed uneconomical to buy a new one. So the Emperor ordered his old dark brown, big-checked tweed taken out of mothballs and altered to fit the young prince...
Died. Tsuneo Matsudaira, 72, suave, skillful onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. (1925-28) and Britain (1928-36), confidant (as Imperial Household Minister) to Emperor Hirohito and father-in-law of the Emperor's brother, Prince Chichibu; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. As a moderate, he was hated by the military, unofficially cleared of war responsibility by the Allies, elected first president in 1947 of Japan's.new upper house, the House of Councilors...