Word: khans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Epic. The sentimental cinema version of Moby Dick served as a reminder of the curious, thrilling story of Ahab, monomaniac. "A Khan of the plank and a king of the sea and a great Lord of Leviathans was Ahab." His was a terrific pride, and a consuming lust for vengeance on the White Whale. Moby Dick, who in malice, or in play, or accident, or instinctive self-defense had bitten off Ahab's leg and left him humiliated, crippled, to hobble on a stump of whale ivory. "Ever since that almost fatal encounter Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness...
Expectations that His Majesty's position would quickly become untenable were strengthened by reports, possibly premature, that he had fled Kabul by airplane, established himself in Kandahar and abdicated in favor of his brother Inayatullah Khan...
Whenever a bath is taken by His Highness the Aga Khan, the bathwater is carefully preserved, bottled and shipped to Mohammedan communities throughout the world. Thus the faithful are provided with a priceless boon. Holy Water in which a descendant of Prophet Mohammed has laved himself. No niggard, the Aga Khan charges for the really enormous quantity of water in which he bathes each year, only his weight in gold. The ceremony of weighing His Highness takes place each twelvemonth at Aga Hall, Bombay; and then and there the golden wage is payed by representatives of the various Mohammedan sects...
Since it is the virile Mohammedans and not the lackadaisical, jabbering Hindus who might be expected to strike a blow for "Dominion Status," the service of His Highness the Aga Khan to Britain, last week, was worth incalculably more than even the fat Khan's great weight in gold...
...with British masses who bet heavily on many an Aga Khan horse...