Word: begum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Khan and the Begum were on their way to the airport to take a plane...
...bandits' leader had cased the job well: he demanded two of the suitcases in the car and the Begum's jewel case. In them was jewelry worth between $600,000 and $800,000 (insured with Lloyds of London) ; among the 40-odd pieces were a $125,000, 25-carat diamond and a $190,000 bracelet...
Yvette, chic French begum of the portly Ago Khan, came down with what her secretary called "just a little lumbago." She joined her husband for the weekend in the Paris hospital where he is recovering from an operation...
...sportsman, now living in wartime exile in Switzerland, celebrated his colt Tehran's winning of the $22,000 St. Leger (rhymes with Dillinger) Stakes by buying several horses at England's famed Newmarket sales. The 67-year-old potentate also posted the banns for his fourth marriage (Begum No. 3 divorced him last year). His new intended is tall, black-haired, 38-year-old Yvette La Brousse, a "Miss France...
...Junior's remote ancestors used to potshoot Brahmans to relieve an inferiority complex because he himself was born in a lower caste. His grandfather was a horse-racing hellion. His father was forced to abdicate after a scandal with the dancing girl Mumtaz Begum, but later settled down with his third wife, the sari-wearing Nancy Miller, Seattle sorority girl. Junior also married an American girl, the former Mrs. Margaret Lawler Branyen, after his first wife died. She is now ill in Santa Barbara. With his wives Junior carried on rural uplift work which gave the Untouchables...