Word: idin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1936-1936
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While 73-year-old His Highness Ala'idin Suleimin Shah, Sultan of Selangor, father of 43 children, attended to such chores of state as having audience of King Edward VIII, his young fourth wife busied herself in London last week buying presents for wives...
Flunkies at Grosvenor House, swank London hotel, chortled behind their hands last week as they recounted an embarrassing incident that lately befell their No. 1 guest, 73-year-old His Highness Ala'idin Suleimin Shah, Sultan of Selangor in the Federated Malay States. The Sultan, happily attired to meet the demands of East & West in yellow silk trousers and a European overcoat, stood boggle-eyed before the hotel's rapidly twirling swing-door, was completely baffled. With Oriental arrogance he tried to pass through in the opposite direction to that in which the door was turning...
| 1 |