Word: chieftains
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...Saudi Arabia that wily chieftain, Ibn Saud, lay low, waiting to see which way the cat jumped...
...piercing yelps. Next morning the King of Kings mounted a twelve-foot dais and appointed three generals in his Army. His son, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, he appointed a lieutenant general. His son, the Duke of Harar, he appointed a major general. The son of his second cousin, Chieftain Ras Kassa, he appointed a brigadier general. The two sons each got a kiss on each cheek for good measure...
...days after his New York City bus strike had ended, Transport Union Chieftain Michael J. Quill was flagged to the curb by an angry policeman for steering his car down the wrong side of Riverside Drive. "Don't you know who I am?" complained Busman Quill. "Who?" said the cop. "I'm Mike Quill." "Never heard of you," grunted the cop, wrote out a ticket...
There he sets up housekeeping with an island mate (throughout the tale Ben knocks the women over like duckpins and rather enjoys saying so) and becomes something of a chieftain. By the time he leaves, he has picked up pearls which, in London, net him all the King's Pardoning he needs, and thousands of pounds sterling into the bargain. The ending is technically happy but, like the treatment throughout, perceptibly tougher and more intelligent than such stories generally bother to be. Indeed Benjamin Blake turns out to be not merely an engaging adventure piece but an articulate tract...
...traveled 14,000 miles. He had talked with four Prime Ministers, twelve Cabinet members, one King (and an African tribal chieftain on the way home), one Archbishop, the Lord Mayors of Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield, innumerable soldiers, policemen, laborers, dock workers, charwomen, waitresses, bricklayers, chemists, reporters, shopkeepers. He saw a Communist demonstration and, while bombs drooped outside, listened to a debate in the House of Commons. He had a long talk with men working on the London sewers, an all evening session that lasted until two in the morning with Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Lord Beaverbrook and Major Clement Attlee...