Word: maharajas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christ of Every Road, The Christ on the Mount, Christ and Human Suffering. In 1928 the Methodist Episcopal Church elected Dr. Jones a bishop. He immediately resigned, preferring to pursue a calling which kept him in contact wi:h Brahmin Saint Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Poet Rabindranath Tagore. the Maharaja Gaekwar Sir Sayaji Rao III of Baroda...
...Naini Tal, India, Sir Gulab Singh Bahadur, 33-year-old Bandhvesh Maharaja of Rewa, shot his 501st tiger, claimed a world record...
...Toscanini's first orchestra concert last fortnight arrived Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, Maharaja Raja I Rajgan of Kapurthala, and a pretty woman. They were late. Ignoring a strict Salzburg rule, the lean old Maharaja & friend pushed by a doorkeeper, swept down the aisle to their seats in the first row. Toscanini, who had lifted his baton to begin the last movement of a Mozart symphony, heard the commotion, turned around to glare, bowed ironically, growled: "Well, I can wait." The sympathetic audience broke into loud cheers which for a moment the flustered Maharaja seemed to take as a personal ovation...
...India's native rulers, kings in their own realms. In wealth, sheer undevaluable silver, gold and gems, nearly every potentate in London last week surpassed George V. But there was the usual tendency in the English Press to outfable the fabulous. That potentate of potentates, His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, was assumed to have taken a "whole floor" at the Savoy Hotel, assumed to be out shopping for "his sartorial foible. British underpants of a particular weave costing ?200 per pair," assumed to have "brought from India his special curry cook...
...Jubilee procession (see p. 21), Patiala rode in a State carriage behind his King, together with His Majesty's other Honorary Indian Aides-de-Camp: H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, H. H. the Maharaja of Bikaner and the Nawab Malik Sir Umar Hayat Khan. In this attendance on the King Emperor the kings find their highest prestige. Because the Maharaja of Bikaner is today the Prince in waiting to George V of the Indian Empire, he plans to stop in London for a year. English friends call him "The Englishman," their highest praise. Last week...