Word: maharajah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marseille her plans nearly went agley. Fellow-tripper Julius Rappaport of Allentown, Pa., confessed that he too hankered to make a record. With chivalry worthy of Phileas Fogg, he finally withdrew, leaving Widow Adams unrivaled in the field. July 3rd found Widow Adams in Jodhpur, India, joshing its photophobic maharajah into posing with her for a snapshot. But her biggest thrill came in the California Clipper nearing Honolulu, when she broadcasted over a Honolulu-San Francisco radio hookup. She did not strike rough weather until she encountered an electrical storm over Nebraska...
...Ranchipur. mythical capital of a small Indian principality of the same name, a mixed congregation of people are waiting with tense impatience for the June rains to break the heat of a particularly torrid spring. There are the kindly old Maharajah and his sharp old spouse...
...near Paris) expatriate, firmly announced his determination to return to the U. S., henceforth to devote himself to the American scene. His switch was prompted by a spur-of-the-moment decision to see India first; captivated, he made three subsequent visits, most of them as guest of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, Bengal ruler whose kingdom supplied much of the local color for The Rams Came. Bromfield still says he intends to settle in the U. S. some day, meantime commutes between Senlis, Switzerland (where he has three children, all girls, at school) and Manhattan. Hard on luggage...
...poor to bid was the third Bourbon sister, 61-year-old Marie Alice Ildephonse Marguerite. Princess Del Prete, whom Don Jaime cut off with 12,000 francs a year. For ?15,000 the necklace passed into the hands of jewel-fancying Sir Kamesh-war Singh, Maharajah of Darbhanga, whose bodyguard of eight tall, turbaned, immaculate Indians has been one of London's sights since the Coronation...
...civilization how to suck the eggs of democracy." Nor does India's caste system stick in his craw. He cites it as a method of spreading employment, as in the case of his Indian officer friend, who employed 25 servants, supported in all 62 people. He mentions the maharajah who went to pay a quiet overnight visit with 700 retainers, and was of such high caste that he always ate alone, when he gave a dinner party would have a half lemon put on his plate, out of courtesy. As for the condition of Indian women, Mr. Yeats-Brown...