Word: maharajahs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time Daisy got along well with her husband, bore him three sons. She got along well with almost everybody; everywhere men took to her kindly. On a visit to India she went roller-skating, fell, had to be bandaged up and put to bed. A Maharajah called to pay his respects. Because of Daisy's bandages they were mutually invisible, so the Ma- harajah kissed her toe through the blanket. In Egypt she was taken to see a stomach-dance; "it looked horrid." But mostly her travels were in well-marked royal grooves: visits to England, appearances...
...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...