Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Babe was captured in India at the age of ten or eleven. She was transported to the London Zoo where she remained until boisterous Showman Barnum blandly cajoled her away from the directors for $10,000. With his circus, she performed all over the U. S. and Europe. In later years, when she went with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, millions gawked at her and fed her peanuts. Always leader of the parade, Babe was the unquestioned monarch of the elephant picket line. But three years ago General Director William M. Mann of the National Zoological Park persuaded...
...Medford, Mass, received six Oriental gold and spun-glass bracelets, mailed to her from Bombay, India, by her aunt Amelia Earhart...
...John Meaden, sprinted easily down the homestretch, passed him and won by 10 yds. for a new meet record (i 152.2), almost three seconds short of the world mark. Thus completed was Oxford-Cambridge's first clean sweep on U. S. soil. The apple-cheeked, bespectacled, India-born son of a Methodist missionary, Godfrey Brown trains strictly the year long, made the Cambridge varsity team his freshman year. He is "reading" (majoring in) English and History at Peterhouse, writes sport for various Cambridge undergraduate papers. Speediest Briton at every distance from 100 yds. to a half mile, he rarely...
...throne in 1930 when British pressure forced his father, who had ordered the execution of the lover of one of his dancing girls, to abdicate just before his marriage to Nancy Miller of Seattle. The Maharanee's palace at Indore was the first air-conditioned building in India...
...Joseph $1,000,000 as a Harvard graduation present (1891), seen him almost corner the U. S. wheat market and lose $9,750,000 (1898), become a famed horse racer and sportsman. He had seen his daughter Mary wed a Britisher who became Lord Curzon, and Viceroy of India. He had seen his daughter Marguerite marry another English title, become the Countess of Suffolk & Berkshire, and his daughter Nancy pick as her second husband Lieutenant Colonel Colin Powys Campbell of the British Army...