Word: khans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supposed to be there. For a shilling they sold pieces of paper with the name of the winner written thereon. Bookies with checked vests ran around the stand which towers at the end of the famed horseshoe shaped track Gentlemen with grey toppers peered through binoculars. The Aga Khan who two months ago offered $100,000 for Trigo was, of course, present. King George, who has been sick, and Queen Mary were not there. But Edward of Wales sat in a box with Princess Mary and her husband Of course, it rained. But Lord Lonsdale famed side-whiskered British sportsman...
...Genghis Khan (1162-1227). Persons so un as to behold his Tartar funeral proces were beheaded in order that the bad news not travel back to his capital...
...Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis, Xanadu, who decreed a stately pleasure near the sacred river Alph...
...hazardous sport of cribbing, to the fast and savage new indoor game of feather wafting, to kodaking the koodoo in Africa, to drop-tag as a pleasing sport for the flyer, and to the fact that while you cannot afford to buy a race-horse, the Aga Khan. The pictures are better than the text, but of what sporting paper, is this not true? Leslie Cheek '31 supplies an uproarious cover, and the whole staff has been busy making composographs and very good composographs they have turned out to be. There is something bold and fine in the conception...
...hostile to the Bolshevik regime, he castigates the man whose body is "still preserved in pickle for the curiosity of the Moscow public and for the consolation of the faithful." - Lenin. "In the cutting off of the lives of men and women no Asiatic conqueror, not Tamerlane, not Jenghiz Khan, can match his fame. . . . His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up. . . . Apt at once to kill or to learn: . . . ruffianism and philanthropy: but a good husband; a gentle guest; happy, his biographers assure us, to wash up the dishes or dandle the baby; as mildly...