Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided on the main part. We think TIME ought to square off an' use the follerin' title when referrin' to George V: "His Majesty George the Fifth. King of England. Ireland and Scotland, and Emperor of India." Now then, a few of the kahlege kids thought the title should end up with somethin' grand and splendiferous-someihin' suggestin' the glory of England.-like "tarantara. tarantara, BOOM-de-ay-BOOM-de-ay-BOOM!'' But a old farmer got up in the group an' said, "We all know th' English people...
...parts of South America to 17 or 18 in Lapland. A survey some years ago indicated that the average age of puberty in the U. S. was 13. Authorities believe that it is now going down, especially among the well-nurtured upper classes. Few years ago Katherine Mayo (Mother India} set out to expose India's child marriages, horrified the U. S. and infuriated Indians by asserting that native girls begin bearing children at 8 or 9, that births at 12 or 13 were common. Indian medical men argued that the average age of puberty in India...
...proudest of Persians last week was Hossein Khan Keyostevan, consul for his country at Karachi, India. From Teheran he had just received orders to go next month to Shanghai and open a Persian consulate, thus becoming the first man in 1,300 years to establish official diplomatic relations between Persia and China...
...came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, who reigned 24 centuries ago 'from India to Ethiopia, that he put away his proud wife Vashti and espoused a modest, pretty Jewess named Esther. Ignorant of his queen's race, Ahasuerus made a favorite of her cousin Mordecai, who had saved the king's life. This was annoying to Haman the Prime Minister, a haughty anti-Semite. Haman had a gallows built 50 cubits high on which to hang Mordecai. He also got Ahasuerus to agree to exterminate "a certain people," casting lots (Purim) to decide when...
...compositions in British Who's Who) Pomp and Circumstance has the lusty. red-blooded quality which characterizes the best of Elgar's music. When he was recognized by the throne, Elgar started writing too much occasional music. He celebrated King George's coronation, his visit to India in 1912, his recovery from pneumonia in 1929. But having found an important native composer. England never stopped praising him, rated him a worthy successor of Beethoven and Brahms...