Word: rajahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...becoming regional museums in time. Western art, on the other hand, is difficult to collect due to the (a) lack of encouragement which the ruling English gave to this sort of thing (b) high prices in today's ultra-competitive art market and (c) reluctance of the remaining Indian rajahs to part with their private collections. On this last obstacle Dr. Prakash commented: "The rajah will part first with his palace, second with his Ford and only at the extreme with his art collection." To make this eventual parting easier, the Indian government has forbidden export of art for selling...
...last week, the simple, three-minute sequence was reshot eight times. But for the girls, it was worth every minute of a ten-hour day. Like such cinemorsels as Top Star Madhubala and a few other lucky ones, any one of the lowly dancing girls may suddenly grow rajah-rich in the third biggest-and zani-est-movie industry on earth...
...city of Salisbury to honor Britain's Marquis of Salisbury. He found himself shunted to a segregated seat, along with other non-whites while the rest of the diplomatic corps were allotted seats in the council chamber. When the Indian assistant commissioner, the wealthy, Oxford-educated Rajah of Alirajpur, had to visit the Nyasaland capital of Zomba on official business, the only hotel accommodations he could get were 40 miles from town. The rajah has his hair cut by his pretty wife because, he says bitterly, "it has been made painfully clear to me that...
...practiced. For centuries, native praus flashed out from inlets and rivers to send kris-waving pirates swarming aboard European merchantmen richly laden with the wealth of the Spice Islands. The conquering Dutch were never able to thoroughly subdue Atjeh, on the northern tip of Sumatra. In 1906 a Balinese rajah, his sons, wives, concubines and soldiers committed mass suicide rather than surrender...
...Rajah never bothered to deny that Grover Cleveland Alexander had sipped a few before he took over from Haines and struck out Yankee Tony Lazzeri to save the 1926 World Series for the Cardinals. It seemed a workable way of staying calm in the clutch. Now there is another...