Word: maharajah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dean Lewis Factor. While covering the field hockey game, I happened to see a solitary figure scamper into the stands. After a quick double-take, I realized it was none other than His Majesty Harry R. Lewis '68, Chief Maharajah of the College...
...tiger hunter of yore was a maharajah or british aristocrat who would take potshots at roaring beasts while perched atop an elephant. Celebrated in prints and woodcuts, this blood sport looked manly but carried with it about as much risk as watching a professional football game from a skybox, since the cats wouldn't attack an elephant. Today the typical tiger killer is more like an Indian man named Raju: a diminutive, ragged farmer who does not even own a gun. Nonetheless, as a member of the Jenu Kuruba tribe, Raju knows how to hunt the big cats...
...Feldstein has vocal critics, too, according to Warsh. "Lester Thurow, who himself was a candidate for the presidency of the Bureau in 1977, noting Feldstein's claim that a maharajah, receiving reports from five blind men feeling an elephant, could piece together an accurate picture, tartly compared Feldstein to a blind man suffering from the delusion of believing he was a maharajah," he writes...