Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. The Maharaja of Patiala, 46, ruler of the largest Phulkian state, the premier power in India's Punjab, and one of the richest Indian princes; of kidney disease; in Lahore, India. A loyal supporter of Great Britain, he ruled some 1,600,000 people, had an annual income of about $2,500,000, wore a 21-strand pearl necklace valued at $5,000,000, enjoyed possession of the world's finest collection of emeralds, had a fleet of 21 Rolls-Royces, one senior and two junior maharanis...
...year radio orchestra, Conductor Chavez drew a studio audience in which the mink coats and white ties of previous broadcasts were conspicuously absent. Programmed were two of Conductor Chavez' own compositions: the energetic, Stravinsky-influenced Sinfonia de Antigona; and the Sinfonia India, in which Composer Chavez uses several authentic Mexican Indian themes...
Death Revealed. Of George Charles Beresford, 72, original McTurk of Kipling's Stalky & Co.; in Brighton, Eng.; fortnight ago. After school with Stalky (Major-General Lionel Charles Dunsterville) and Beetle (Kipling) at Westward Ho! he went to India as an engineer, contracted malaria, returned to England, became an antique dealer and photographer...
When Nagesh Terimbakrao Yawalkar was 18 he left his father's house in Suvasara, State of Gwalior, India and journeyed to Bombay to be an artist. At the end of two months he was sleeping in Bombay parks. Then a calendar company commissioned him to paint a goddess. After two more months of painting goddesses, young Yawalkar tired of city life and lit out for home. There he remained until about a year ago, when the young, rich, plump, art-loving Maharaja of Gwalior invited him to show his paintings at the palace, Upshot of that was that Artist...
...Harold Nicolson (Paul Verlaine, Portrait of a Diplomatist) was a small boy, he believed that the greatest man in the world was his uncle. Lord Dufferin, Queen Victoria's slight, swarthy, long-haired, dreamy-eyed Governor-General of Canada, Ambassador to Russia, Turkey, Italy and France, Viceroy of India, amateur painter, architect, Greek and Persian scholar, author. Lord Dufferin died in 1902, when Harold Nicolson...