Word: raja
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...daring British privateer named Brooke forced the Sultan of Brunei to make him Raja of the vast East Indian district called Sarawak. Today his descendant is swank, hard Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, who as The White Raja of Sarawak rules 500,000 natives from his palace at Kuching (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Romantic Sarawak is "independent under the protection of the British Crown." Last month in Sarawak a cable from the Raja's 22-year-old Daughter Eliza asked if she could marry London's loudest-blowing hot jazz conductor, Harry...
...Cabled Raja Brooke in reply, ''QUITE OK ELIZA PROVIDED NO PUBLICITY OR NEWSPAPER EXCITEMENT LOVE VYNER...
British deference to Raja Brooke kept the story out of staid London papers and off the cables. Last week it broke as irrepressible picture services showed the world Raja Brooke's daughter and her bridegroom cutting their jazz wedding cake...
Because he was so imprudent as to fill his slack old stomach with a few dates soaked in water, St. Gandhi lay on a couch last week speechless from stomach ache at the wedding of his plump son Devadas to Miss Luxmi Raja Gopal Achariar, daughter of a Nationalist Congress leader...
Married. Devadas Gandhi, 21; and Luxmi Raja Gopal Achariav, 20; in Poona, India...