Word: hathifah
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Last week Pahang was astonished to learn that its sportive Sultan had secretly annexed still another wife. The newcomer was lissom, 20-year-old Hathifah Binte Abdul Rashid Alis, also a graduate of the Kuala Lumpur dance halls, who in 1955 was elected "joget queen" as Malaya's finest practitioner of the traditional local dance...
Last week as Hathifah, swathed in costly clothes and jewels, embarked by ship with her protector for the bright lights of Hong Kong, the girl's grandfather, from his wooden hut outside Kuala Lumpur, revealed the news that the pair were married two weeks ago in a proxy ceremony lasting five minutes. The Sultan was irate that the news got out, and would not say which if any of his previous wives he had divorced in order to stay inside the Islamic maximum. But Grandpa felt he had to tell all; otherwise there would be talk about his granddaughter...
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