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Vast Asia's southernmost tip is the Sultanate of Johore. Last week amid dazzling pomp a well-preserved Scotswoman of 41 was crowned Sultana of Johore. Highly pleased seemed her new husband, H. H. Sir Ibrahim, Sultan of Johore, 58, an earnest ruler who lists among his recreations "rubber planting...
Nevertheless Crown Prince Azam Jah obeyed his father's orders to marry last week, and so did Prince Moazzam Jah. Proceeding to Nice, France, these drab brothers were caparisoned with Oriental pomp, garlanded with flowers, buckled with jeweled swords and conducted by a suitably gorgeous retinue to the villa of His Holiness the politically deposed Caliph of Islam, goat-bearded Abdul Medjid Effendi, 63, still spiritually potent...
...Head of the House of Bourbon issued this edict: Neither of his daughters may ever marry. Amid tremendous sensation the engagement of the Infanta Beatriz was broken last week. With her own hands she had made most of her wedding gown, was to have been married with semi-royal pomp at Fontainebleau...
...destroyed it will be by their own hand. But this is not as absurd as it all sounds to the crass materialist. It is what makes the English a great nation, a great band of comfortable, content, utterly confident Soames Forsytes. Take away their traditions and the pomp and circumstance of all England would be dragged in the dust...
...pomp and circumstances of all England lies trembling in the balance. Banks throughout America have no balance upon which to tremble. Short days ago the financial structure of Germany was undermined and the nation with her back to the wall stared over a bleak world. Empires, dominions, age hallowed institutions, and fair names avail nothing. No man can forget the greatness of these items...