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Word: descendantal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whenever a bath is taken by His Highness the Aga Khan, the bathwater is carefully preserved, bottled and shipped to Mohammedan communities throughout the world. Thus the faithful are provided with a priceless boon. Holy Water in which a descendant of Prophet Mohammed has laved himself. No niggard, the Aga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Water, Words & Gold | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

The famed, ascetic Mahatma is the Saint of India's Hindus; and the Pandit is now their Sword. The great Aga Khan is neither Saint nor Sword, but a very rich, fat and astute descendant of Prophet Mohammed, and therefore the most influential of Indian Mohammedans. Last week the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Mahatma, Pandit & Khan | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Since His Majesty is the 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-0-Mikami, such appeals are regarded as a deadly sacrilege and sin. Nonetheless last week, when Emperor Hirohito rode out to open Parliament, a burly farmer from Saitama Province burst through the cordon of Imperial police and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Out Devils, In Luck! | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Released by the Nationalist Information Bureau in Manhattan, last week, was the striking information that seven out of the ten members of the new Nationalist Cabinet are Christians. These include the 75th descendant of Confucius in direct line, H. H. Kung, Minister of Colonies; and the great Marshal Feng Yu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Christian Majority | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Married. Richard Harold Saxon Tudor Bold, songster of Earl Carroll's Vanities, great-grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, descendant of English Kings (Harold the Saxon, Richard the Bold); and Rae Gardner, Colonial scioness, of Albany, N. Y.; in Greenwich, Conn.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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