Word: rajahs
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...Hubbard Ayer Inc. (cosmetics). Mrs. Dodge was in bed with nervous breakdown. Inspectors who pawed the trunkfuls, cratefuls of lavish riches brought in by Mr. & Mrs. Dodge last month on the S. S. Ile de France are still marveling. A panorama of silks, satins, furs was there, and a rajah-worthy collection of diamond jewelry. Scant room remained that day on the pier for the effects of any other traveler whose last initial was D. Yet Mrs. Dodge had declared only $17,000 worth of imports. "Did she think we were that dumb?" asked inspectors who had pounced...
...advantage of "rajah" is that you can swell it into "maharajah" for a "tycoon" of superlative grandeur...
Also "tycoon" begins to unnerve me as I see it approaching. Why not also "rajah...
...Owen D. Young, puissant rajah of electrical utilities...
Another advantage about East Indian titles such as rajah and maharajah would be that for potent or puissant lady magnates you could say "begum...