Word: aga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sadri Khan Aly's brother and the Aga's son, and Rita Hayworth's brother-in-law pepped up here as a full-fledged member of the Class...
...Khan, as most newspaper seeders well know, married movie star Rita Hayworth. The Aga, who is the weighty king of a suburb of India, receives every year presents of gold and diamonds equivalent to his weight, and sells his bath water (used) to his people...
...days, .the Aga Khan had been sitting in the lobby keeping an eye on the door, waiting to greet Farouk. For two days, aging Sacha Guitry, 65, playwright-playboy, in green tam-o'-shanter and Scottish plaid mantle, had been sitting on the opposite side of the lobby, ready with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx...
That night the King turned up at the Casino with the Aga and the Begum, the Aga's son, Aly Khan, and his wife, Rita Hayworth. Farouk got into a baccarat game and played on until 5 a.m., winning 20 million francs. The next night he won 15 million, the third night he began to lose. The Casino refused to give out statistics on the losses...
...Senate subcommittee's buckshot blast at high coffee prices (TIME, June 19), Latin America reacted with its loudest collective yelp in years. By accusing the latinos of rigging the coffee market and by bluntly suggesting some undiplomatic ways to force prices down aga (e.g., "scrutinizing" loan to coffee countries, encouraging production in other countries, policing the coffee trade, etc.), Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette and his colleagues had managed to wound the good neighbors' sensitive pride and threaten their pocketbooks as well...