Word: fats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water in which he bathes each year, only his weight in gold. The ceremony of weighing His Highness takes place each twelvemonth at Aga Hall, Bombay; and then and there the golden wage is payed by representatives of the various Mohammedan sects. No fool, the Aga Khan keeps fat. Also he is at pleasure to stand in with the British Government,* which pays him privily a fat subsidy for his good offices among the Mohammedan subjects of George V, Last week at Delhi, the splendrous new Capital of British India, it was His Highness the Aga Khan who presided...
...minority was tragically evident from the fact that even its own guests had to be entertained across the river. When travelling salesmen were comfortably accommodated in an hostelry of another city, they found as much amusement in the hotel situation at Cambridge as in the story of the fat lady in the pullman car; but on the other hand, when they were forced to the inconvenience of leaving town in order merely to spend a few hours of the night, they usually gave vent to their spleen in no uncertain terms...
...behind piney Georgia, whose output is more than a billion board-feet per annum. And, though few people know it, huge herds of beef cattle range the plains of Florida's northern interior. Many a Texas steer, like many a tired tycoon, goes to Florida to get fat...
...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 Aga Khan traveled from his sumptuous home in Bombay (western India) to Delhi (northern India), and there prepared to sit as chairman of the all-India Mohammedan Congress. Meanwhile at Calcutta (eastern India) the predominantly Hindu so-called Indian National Congress, met under the chairmanship of Pandit Motilal Nehru, and under...
There is no conclusion in Professor Graves' fat volume, unless it is the conclusion of a thousand disagreements...