Word: khan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again from the sparks struck by Soviet ideals. The human fuel there is crude and lumpy; but so are the logs one needs for a great fire. It is the dream of Soviet Russians that their statesmen may become the successors to the great kindlers of Asia: Alexander, Jenghiz Khan, his grandson Kublai Khan and Tamburlaine...
Very different is the attitude at Samarkand toward the two greatest Khans.* The natives seem indifferent that the conquests of these two mighty princes made them dreaded and obeyed from Poland and Peking to India. For some reason the sack of Samarkand by Jenghiz Khan is treasured up in the native mind as an atrocity altogether reprehensible and comparatively recent (1221 A. D.). Strolling about with a native guide one hears said of whatever seems to be in disrepair that "it was all right until Jenghiz Khan came"-an explanation provocative of hilarity when offered by native children to account...
...plenitude. The grief of Achilles over the body of Patroclus; the death of Socrates; "Hark! Hark! the Lark" and "Full Fathom Five"; "Lycidas"; "To Althea from Prison"; Gulliver and the Lilliputians; Tristram and the Ass; the Pibroch of Donuil Dhu; "The Rime of the Ancient Mari-er" and "Kubla Khan"; Lamb's "Gentle Giantess"; Edward John Trelawny on how they burned Shelley's body; a great deal of Keats; more Tennyson; still more Thackeray and Browning and more Dickens than anyone...
Amid surprise, stillness reigned. No dealer raised the Aga Khan, though amateurs had expected the "Golden Dawn" to bring much more. Why did a 61½% -carat stone of such perfection go so cheap? Attention was distracted from this interesting question for a time by the coincidence that Princess Therese Aga Khan, wife of the Aga Khan III, died in a Paris hospital almost at the moment when her husband was bidding at Christie's. But why did the "Golden Dawn" go under the hammer at only ?4,950 ($24,057)? The price of diamonds has long been relative...
...Khan left Christie's, amateurs asked: "Do the dealers think that the Diamond Trust is now dumping diamonds...