Word: maharajah
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...Milk. In a special first-class railway car, St. Gandhi was rushed unresisting through the night to Borivli. Outside this town the train halted and the prisoner was ushered into a handsome limousine with rich, closely drawn curtains, the type of car in which the wife of an Indian Maharajah is taken for a ride. With an Englishman disguised as an Indian chauffeur at the wheel, the car sped to Yeroda jail in Poona. There officials did all in their power to make St. Gandhi comfortable, showed reporters a dozen woolly animals of purest strain, purchased by His Majesty...
...worst passages it provokes only that mild comfortable sort of boredom which is sometimes pleasanter than entertainment to people who want something to do between dinner and bed. There is a master criminal named Malatroff who classifies his subordinates by number, and is interested in procuring the Maharajah's ruby or a string of pearls from a Youngstown, Ohio, millionaire living at Nice. Evelyn Brent and Clive Brook are in it. Best shot: what Miss Brent found on her way to the safe...
...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...
...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...