Word: maharanis
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...turbaned and mustached peasants of northwest India's Rajasthan state, it was a taste of old times. Through their villages, in a 1948 Buick that scattered peacocks, startled bullocks and cloaked the neem trees with dust as it sped along, came the Maharani Gayatri Devi, her bobbed brown hair dipping over one eye and her lithe figure wrapped in a peppermint chiffon sari. With the homage they and their forefathers had always displayed to a maharajah's wife, the villagers touched foreheads to the dust, tossed marigold garlands and waved incense. Cried the crowds: "Come...
...Elsa. To open the Son Vida in approved International Set style, Rainier invited a task force of names and name droppers and sailed on Aristotle Onassis' yacht Christina. Besides his beautiful wife Princess Grace, the guests included the sari-clad Maharani of Baroda, Hollywood Columnist Hedda Hopper and Partygiver Elsa Maxwell, and, of course, Onassis' great and good friend, Maria Callas. There was some worry about the propriety of Rainier's and Princess Grace's traveling on Onassis' yacht, since Ari and Maria are not married-a condition that Princess Grace, as a good Catholic...
...columnist for the Hollywood Reporter, Irving Hoffman disengaged himself in 1952, began to roam all continents as a sort of gypsy flack. He is or has been everybody's buddy-from Wendell Willkie to Polly Adler, Truman Capote, Pablo Picasso, ferry boat captains, prostitutes, J. Edgar Hoover, the Maharani of Baroda, and countless men of the cloth...
...time went on, however, the young Maharajah's other hobbies gradually gave way to a more consuming interest: collecting an unrivaled harem of eight senior wives (who were called Maharani and were privileged to eat off gold dinnerware) and 150 concubines (who were called Rani and ate off silver). At the time of his death at 46 in 1938, His Exalted Highness' unflagging devotion to these helpmeets had earned him the informal title, "His Exhausted Highness." The memory of that devotion was perpetuated in a nursery of 52 sons and daughters...
Divorced. By Sir Pratapsinghrao, 47, one of the world's richest men (estimated yearly income: $8,000,000), who, as India's Gaekwar ("Keeper of the Cattle") of Baroda (1939-51), ruled a princedom of 8,000 sq. mi. with some 3,000,000 subjects: his second maharani, cigar-smoking Sita Devi, 41; after 13 years of marriage, one child (Prince Sayajirao); in Bombay...