Word: maharaja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years no Maharaja of Jaipur had begotten a male heir. Yet lo and behold! last week a squawling man child was born, the prayerfully begotten son of His Highness the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Bahadur, age 20, salute 17 guns...
Mayor Walker arrived at Bremen with a headache. Max Schmeling, champion boxer, pounded his back in welcome. He looked over the street cleaning plant. His arrival at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin was compared to that of the Maharaja of Baroda. Women kissed him in the lobby. For his head he took aspirin, went out to a musical show, later toured the night clubs, was overwhelmed by U. S. tourists. He called on Baroness von Huenefeld, presented her with a lucky coin carried by her late Atlantic-flying son. Berlin's garbage plant was given a brief inspection...
...Other noteworthy 1931 births: to onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico (son, premature); Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (daughter); William Henry Vanderbilt (twins, forecast by X-ray); Emperor Hirohito of Japan (daughter); Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (son, winning him a large wager...
...Gods and to Goddesses of the Hindu pantheon prodigious sacrifices were promised by Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, if they would give...
...Germain-en-Laye, outside Paris, last week the Ex-Maharaja of Indore, forced to abdicate by Britain for "immorality" (TIME, March 8, 1926), moved out of his $1,000,000 Chateau Holkar, offered it for sale. With his U. S. wife, former Miss Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, the Ex-Maharaja will live at a Paris hotel, will continue to give champagne suppers to whites and browns...