Word: rajahs
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...British rule or sovereignty, from the Hindu verb raj, to reign; cf. rajah, a prince...
...London Zoo was in a turmoil for almost two weeks. It all started by Rajah Ranjitsinhji's (of India) presenting the progeny of a lion and a tigress to the zoölogical authorities...
George Arliss impersonates, as he did in the stage version of two years ago, the Oxford-trained Rajah of Rukh. Into the Rajah's kingdom crash (in an airplane) two Englishmen and an English woman. Political friction, which obtains at the moment between the Rajah and the British rule in India, complicated by his sensibility of the woman's singular attractions, persuade the dignitary to sacrifice the males to the Green Goddess. The discovery of a wireless set in his palace and the subsequent arrival of British airplanes help to counteract his inhospitable intentions. The plot is well...
...mother was unlettered but deeply spiritual-fantastically wise. His father, " a kind of god to us," practised law, but was also a skilled musician. " During his vacations we used to go in a cart drawn by bullocks from the court of one Rajah to another, where he sang." Young Mukerji himself was initiated (at the age of 14) as a Brahmin priest and passed through the requisite two years of wandering pilgrimage, begging his way through India, seeking the knowledge of God-a pilgrimage most fascinatingly described. Later, he gave up his priesthood, to become fervently interested in the movement...
...Scott Jr. '23 Mrs. Gwendolyn Dubb, A. A. Fisk Jr. '22 Tai Lo, M. H. Dill 1S.L.A. Boozer Bill Buxton, W. V. M. Fawcett '21 Steve the Sticker, P. L. Cheney '21 The Ghost of-Captain Kidd, W. H. Kenyon Jr. '21 The Soothsayer, C. C. Macomber '22 The Rajah, P. O. Chalmers Unc. Sadie, L. B. Ellis...