Word: empress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stated, the grandson of the Empress Dowager's early lover, he is also her grandnephew...
...your account of the coronation of Henry Pu Yi, you made a statement which I believe to be incorrect. You stated that this young man is the son of a nephew of the old Dowager Empress...
...Continued on p. 63) the former Empress. He is the grandson of the man whom she had loved and wished to marry when she was young. She was forced to marry another man for reasons of state, but never forgot her first love, and it was his grandson whom she placed upon the throne at the death of the Emperor, her nephew. . . . EFFIE M. SMITH...
...Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi (meaning Compassionate and Fortunate), was the last great sitter on China's Dragon Throne. Born into a noble clan still well-known in Peiping, she was chosen for the household of a dissolute Emperor, wangled herself up from fourth to second rank and produced his only son, a feat in itself. A slim little woman with lively black eyes, an implacable fury when crossed, otherwise fond of argument, company and flowers, she effectively ruled China from 1861 when she was 27 until her death in 1908. a chagrined old crone of 74. She engineered three...
...things that filled the World from then until he died in 1911 - War with Spain, the assassination of McKinley, the Roosevelt Administration, the election of Taft - Joseph Pulitzer saw almost nothing. Last week Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 49, was cruising around the world with his wife on the Empress of Britain. When the huge Canadian Pacific liner reached Manila, the publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had to cancel a speech he was to have made at a newspaper dinner. From his cabin word went forth that his eyes had suddenly failed him. His left eye was reported completely blind...