Word: empress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clydeside shipyards last week, Queen Elizabeth II swung a wooden mallet bearing the carved likeness of a Canadian beaver. The mallet tapped a knife, which cut a cord, letting the traditional bottle of champagne swing against the white hull of a new ship. Then the duly christened Empress of Britain, a 24,000-ton passenger liner built for Canadian Pacific Steamship Ltd., went slowly down the ways into the water...
...Steamships, a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific transport empire bossed by Norris Roy Crump, 50, of Montreal, is counting on the new Empress to spearhead a comeback in the Atlantic passenger trade. Before World War II, C.P. was one of the world's biggest shipping firms, with fleets of liners and freighters in both the Atlantic and Pacific. Ten C.P. ships, including an earlier Empress of Britain, were lost in war service. By late 1952, when it was painfully apparent that costs were not going down, a $30 million order was placed for the new Empress of Britain...
...after another, the Cunard Line's Britannic, Mauretania and Saxonia and the Canadian Pacific's Empress of Australia and Empress of Scotland missed their sailing dates as a result of the seamen's and stewards' demand for a shorter work week-44 hours as opposed to what they call the 56-70 hours now demanded of them. As the week drew on, the strikers immobilized the biggest prize of all, the Queen Mary. Fuming with indignation because the shipowners had pooh-poohed the likelihood of a strike until they were comfortably settled in their cabins, hundreds...
...filled with cotton seeds ("Just what we need here!"). Picasso glanced eagerly at the family photographs, turned the occasion into an old home week with his comments: Nephew Jaime-"He looks just like the Count of Paris"; Dona Lola-"She resembles a bullfighter's mother or a Roman empress"; their apartment-"Why, they live better than I do!"* "Good! Good!" Glancing at L'Oeil's pictures of his old works, Picasso searched in vain for the name of his Spanish model, explaining: "We called her 'La saucisse' [ the sausage]." Then, spotting a rare 1904 engraving...
When Belisarius and the Eunuch Narses conquered Italy for Justinian in 540, they re-established Ravenna as the Western capital of the Byzantine empire. Justinian and Theodora, his empress, ordered it suitably adorned. The rendering of Christ in armor for the Archbishop's Chapel, a rare phenomenon in art, may reflect the warlike nature of the Byzantines, who held the view that Christianity could and should be spread by the sword. But the Ravenna Christ looks more loving than awesome. A beardless youth, He lightly treads the lion and the serpent while presenting His eternal promise...