Word: aga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the royal family were sitting. There he shook hands with His Majesty, issued a more coherent statement of his satisfaction for members of the Press: "I am delighted to have won, especially as this is the King's Jubilee Year." The big brown man was Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan, who had just seen his horse Bahram, ridden by able Jockey Freddie Fox, win the 156th Epsom Derby...
Interesting was the fact that Detroit's exhibition was not assembled by the best known U. S. Persian scholar, Dr. Arthur Upham Pope, but by a member of the Detroit Institute's own staff, swarthy, hook-nosed Dr. Mehmet Aga-Oglu, a Persian scholar of almost equal authority. A Russian-born Turk, Dr. Oglu probably would never have known the difference between the Timurid School (1390-1480) and the followers of Bichiter the Great if his childhood ambition had not been to become a naval officer...
...ballets that had true dramatic context. He used settings by Bakst, Derain, later Picasso. He commissioned composers like Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel to write him music. Expense was no item to Sergei Diaghilev. The Russian Ballet was the rage of Europe. Men like Baron Dmitri Gunsburg, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Aga Khan were proud to support it. Diaghilev is the villain of Romola Nijinsky's story, although she freely grants him his tremendous enterprise...
...Highness the Aga Khan, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah: raised to His Majesty's Privy Council. This honor to a useful Moslem was nicely balanced by conferring the same on Hindu Lawyer Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru...
...Doncaster, England, the biggest crowd of the year (300,000) saw England's three-year-old champion, Lord Derby's Derby-winner Hyperion, win the St. Leger Stakes by three lengths, with the Aga Khan's Felicitation second. It was the 26th time a Derby winner had won the St. Leger. Hyperion's sire, Gainsborough...