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...centre of this solemn group was a pinkish-brown princess, recently born to their Imperial Majesties of Japan (TIME, Sept. 19). Her only sister, Princess Shigeko Teru-No-Miya, 21 months, steadied and restrained by a nurse's hand, gazed wonderingly on as the newest Imperial baby, yelping, was put into a ceremonial bath...
...Solemn prayers to the Ancestral Spirits brought the ceremony to a close...
...that I wanted the regency; that I even begrudged little Michael inheriting the legal right to the throne. These accusations are heartlessly false. I love Helene and her child with all my heart. They have been deserted by their husband and father.* Shall I forsake them in this solemn, trying hour when Michael is about to ascend the throne? No. A queen's heart has greater love than that...
...Solemn priests of the Shinto faith entered the private apartments of Her Majesty, the Empress Nagako, at Tokyo last week, and reverently wound about her waist an obi of purest white silk some twelve feet long. Previously this girdle had been purified and made sacred at the Imperial Shrine. Its presentation to the Empress was in the nature of a symbolic pr yer that she might give birth in a few short weeks to a manchild, her first...
Because Hugh Gibson is a dapperly-dressed, middling-sized man of only 43, and thus "the youngest U. S. Ambassador," his appearance at Geneva as U. S. Chief Delegate was at first regarded in Europe as one of U. S. President Coolidge's solemn little pleasantries...