Word: khans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court custody pending a hearing on the society's charges that Rita had neglected them. Rita had left the children in the modest White Plains home of widowed Antique Dealer Dorothy Chambers, an old friend of Dick's family. Early this week Yasmin's father, Aly Khan, flew from Cinemactress Gene Tierney's side to Rita's side. From Rebecca's father, Orson Welles, whose headquarters have long been in Europe, came word that he would gladly play nanny to both children until the crisis was over. In a White Plains hotel suite, Haymes...
When, as in The Black Rose, one Yellow Horde meets another, the one with some perceptible religion will triumph after horrible and chastening suffering. In the forthcoming Genghis Khan, however, the script writers are cast adrift without a hint as to American preference, none of the combatants being particularly religious and all being equally crafty and barbaric. Until the Horde tangles with Europeans near the end, there should be some terrific battles, with the victory to the strong rather than the popular...
...says Classicist John Finley, to have in one house "the grandson of one of the greatest modern novelists [James Joyce], the grandson of one of the greatest modern painters [Henri Matisse], and the great, "great, great, great, and ad infinitum grandson of God [i.e., the son of the Aga Khan]." But the days of ancestor worship are more or less over, and in point of prestige, the Harvard clubman has become the vanishing American. Once, Theodore Roosevelt, 1880, could happily blurt to the Kaiser that his son-in-law was Porcellian ("A mighty satisfactory thing to be in the Pore...
...balanced precariously on narrow wooden seats to bend their knees in the direction of Mecca. In cars reserved for them, veiled womenfolk nursed babies and tied up bedrolls in anticipation of arrival at Karachi in an hour's time. Pakistan's bearded Foreign Minister Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan made his devotions in the quiet of an air-conditioned carriage...
...tank cars. An explosion rent the air, and the first two cars burst into flame like struck matches. A thick column of smoke boiled into the air as the fire spread along the wooden ties setting car after car aflame. Before the flames reached his car, Foreign Minister Zafrullah Khan was hauled to safety, but others were not so lucky. Despite an official claim of only 150 dead, some survivors estimated that nearly 300 had lost their lives in the wreck. One railroad worker bound for his brother's wedding raced forward to the women's flaming...