Word: maharaja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lean, hard Sir Jey Singhji Bahadur, Maharaja of Alwar. is the man who annually distributes his weight in silver to the poor. Polo and racquets keep him down to about $500 worth. In January H. H. sent out a hurry call for British troops, insisting that 15,000 bearded Meos tribesmen were terrorizing Hindu shopkeepers, making things too hot for his own little army of 500. The troops came, the revolt stopped instantly (TiME...
...troops. To their surprise they found Al-war's finances a Chinese puzzle of mounting debts. Instead of being gangsters, the Meos had revolted against overpowering taxes. Britain offered to lend the ?375,000 needed to straighten out the state's finances on one condition: that the Maharaja take a little trip for two years, cut his privy purse to two lakhs of rupees...
...polo when an Argentine team stopped off to play. This year Chicago will have more than a taste. In honor of the World's Fair, the Open Championship will probably be played there with players from England and possibly a 25-goal team of Indians led by the Maharaja of Jaipur. This winter the Indoor Polo Association of America tried the experiment of playing its tournament sectionally instead of at the Squadron A Armory in Manhattan. Chicago's 124th Field Artillery Armory has better seating facilities than the Manhattan Armory so it was there last week that...
...amused to read on p. 28 of your April 10 issue about the airplane flight over Mt. Everest. You published the picture of the Maharaja of Nepal and mention how this "wily Mongol above whose small craggy kingdom the flight took place, did not want Britishers taking too many pictures over his head." This is a picture of the Maharaja Sir Chandra Shem Shur Jang Bahada Rana who died some five years ago. It is hard to understand how your reporter got into communication with him since his ashes have long been scattered on the water of the Holy River...
...Chandra was succeeded by his brother General Bhim Shem Shur. This Maharaja has since died and was succeeded by his brother General Joodha Shem Shur who is the present Maharaja...