Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kingly record for marriages. Elizabeth, another Tudor, made England mistress of the seas. Charles I, a Stuart, lost his head in a palace courtyard. George III, a Hanover, kept his pig-head and lost his country the richest half of North America. Victoria, a Saxe-Coburg, became Empress of India...
...still a wrinkle in his form that needs ironing out. Although a hard worker, Hovey is apt to sky on the recovery and knife in at the catch a little. At three is one of the products of Harvey Love's own teaching, El Moffat, who halls from Bombay, India and had never done any rowing until his Freshman year, last year. Then with hard and conscientious work he took a seat in the Freshman shell and this year stepped into the second boat...
...Hjalmar Schacht, German master of ledgerdemain, ousted from the Reichsbank presidency in January to make way for Nazi inflationists, embarked on a world-circling vacation trip. Last week he arrived in Bombay, India, tush-tushed reports that he had come to barter for Indian cotton. Surprisingly unsanguine, he said of Britain's stop-Hitler alliances: "We will do our best when the time comes. . . . We will give them a good fight...
Polo is an ancient game of India, but indoor polo was born in a Manhattan riding academy in 1910. Today the Indoor Polo Association boasts 1,200 players good enough to have official handicaps, a national championship that draws galleries as large as any other indoor sport...
...cold in California. The nurse who took care of him while he had it was a broad-mouthed, brunette divorcee named Marguerite Lawler Branyen, who had been a nurse-stewardess on the Union Pacific R.R. In Switzerland in 1937 Indore's child bride died. Last week, in India, the Maharaja announced that, except for abdication, he had just followed the lead of his father and of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor-married an American woman. Marguerite Branyen. The words the Maharaja chose were strangely reminiscent of Edward VIII's famous last speech as King...