Word: maharajah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman who looked not unlike a brownskin edition of Secretary Mellon (but with wider lips). This, a very finicky gentleman with his own chef, an imposing retinue of secretaries, an in come of $3,000,000 per year and a family tree 900 years old, was the much-married Maharajah of Kapurthala in the Punjab, accredited representative to the League of Nations of Their Highnesses the Indian ruling princes. Precisely what he wished to discuss with President Hoover in private, the Maharajah of Kapurthala was not pre pared...
...advantage of "rajah" is that you can swell it into "maharajah" for a "tycoon" of superlative grandeur...
...Lord Rothermere, puissant maharajah of publication and publicity...
Another advantage about East Indian titles such as rajah and maharajah would be that for potent or puissant lady magnates you could say "begum...
Cross My Heart is an unpretentious little musicale. Its attractive qualities are summed up in the word cunning. Songs are not important in its story of a charming girl called Sally Blake (Mary Lawlor) pursued by the Maharajah of Mah-ha and in love with a rich boy masquerading as an orchestra leader...