Word: niggard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whenever a bath is taken by His Highness the Aga Khan, the bathwater is carefully preserved, bottled and shipped to Mohammedan communities throughout the world. Thus the faithful are provided with a priceless boon. Holy Water in which a descendant of Prophet Mohammed has laved himself. No niggard, the Aga Khan charges for the really enormous quantity of water in which he bathes each year, only his weight in gold. The ceremony of weighing His Highness takes place each twelvemonth at Aga Hall, Bombay; and then and there the golden wage is payed by representatives of the various Mohammedan sects...
Scurrilous persons who might have called Il Duce a Christmas niggard forebore to do so, last week, when he despatched 300 tons of food supplies and clothing to gladden impoverished citizens of Albania, troublous Adriatic ally of Italy...
...Khans have been generously rewarded by Britannia?no niggard when she obtains good value for her money. The present Aga Khan III was accorded a salute of eleven guns, in recognition of his invaluable World War services, by Britain...