Word: maharajas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearstpapers editorialed: "But why necessarily an American? Ramsay MacDonald, Mussolini, Premier Yenizelos, the almost-Emperor Henry Pu Yi, Mr. Litvinov of the Soviets, King Zog, the King of Siam and the Maharaja of Mysore wear 'em. Horn-rimmed glasses have become international. They are still the best first-aid to those desirous of that intellectual look. The real ultra-highbrows, of course, cling severely to a pince-nez with black ribbons...
...celebrate the 25th year of his accession to the throne the Maharaja Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes and champion cricketer of India, gave his weight in silver to the poor of his realm. Dressed in full ancestral armor and anointed with sacred water from the Himalayas, the Jamsaheb weighed in at 174 Ib. After the silver distribution, 20,000 poor were...
...Hari Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, held on with both hands last week as his throne shook. Rich Kashmir, sometimes called "a paradise on earth," has a population of 3,300,000, of whom 80% are Moslems. But Sir Hari is a Hindu who holds his job through the good offices of Great Britain. Last week, while Britain was busy in the south, 12,000 Moslems streamed out of the Punjab, started north toward Srinagar with the object of dethroning Sir Hari and completing a solid block of Moslem states from Egypt to Central Asia. Near Rajaori, just...
Protests against the British Raj have indeed taken the form of a "no rent" campaign which is spreading throughout the United Provinces and into the realm of H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. In Allahabad, correspondents summarized their fears by guessing that "one hundred thousand peasants in hundreds of villages" met and swore collective oaths to pay their landlords no rent...
Younger Britons know the son-blessed young Maharaja as a keen sportsman. Elder Britons recall how his foster father the late Maharaja of Jaipur came to King-Emperor Edward VII's coronation in London "without leaving Jaipur soil." This he smartly did by taking with him a large boxful of the said soil, upon which he squatted in London when he ate his meals, quaffed Jaipur water...