Word: mahal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...square miles). For Bombay's 8,000 foreigners, mostly located in the city of Bombay (pop. 1,161,383), the law meant liquor rations -seven bottles of whiskey, or 21 bottles of wine, or 63 bottles of beer a month. It meant the closing of the celebrated Taj Mahal Palace Hotel Bar, centre of Bombay's white community, where Britons regularly go for their "sundowners," the neat, half-size whiskey and soda known as a chotapeg. But for Bombay Presidency's 18,192,500 natives it meant the end of the liquor trade, put some...
...dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over"). And she was not slow to compare national customs, "the American English they are nauty the Scotch very nauty but the French are really bad the worst at Nice I didnt want...
...adventurous career to an overwhelming desire to visit distant lands and to find unusual subjects for narrative stories. He believes in the extraordinary in travel and has numbered among his stunts in far-off places everything from swimming at midnight in the sacred pool of the Taj Mahal to crossing the Alps by elephant in the footsteps of Hannibal. "While on my travels I live in the time of 5 B.C., the modern world then means little to me," he stated...
...retrieve her. Further on, Rome's Julius Caesar (British Museum bust) looks sourly at a rolled rug from whose far end stick the feet of wily Cleopatra. Nearby a Roman lady takes a hot tub bath. Another walks on her hands, sticking out her stomach at beauteous Mumtaz Mahal for whom the Taj Mahal was built...
...modesty but dignity prompted Tobacco-man Duke's Daughter Doris, honeymooning at the Taj Mahal in a private railway car with her Husband James Henry Roberts Cromwell, to protest last week: "I'm a married woman now. 'Tobacco Queen!' What a name...