Word: royals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...current Amir of Bahawalpur is 45-year-old Sir Sadiq Mohamed Kahn Abbasi Bahadur. He was polished by English tutors, became adept at tennis and polo. One of his four royal wives is British-born. The Amir, however, has never been strongly attracted by British ideas on democracy. He was one of India's most despotic rulers. When India was partitioned and Bahawalpur became Pakistan's second largest state, the Amir became one of the Moslem League's sharpest thorns...
Addressing himself to the "colonial rabble before me in this far-flung corner of the earth," be-whiskered George William Pattison, a veteran of the British Royal Dragoons, said that sticking with Great Britain would have given Louisiana to the U.S. for nothing, averted the Civil War, the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and remarked that if there had been no revolution "you would be able to make a decent...
...Life magazine last spring, the Rugby Club will have considerably more to do than romp around at beach parties. The schedule for the Bermuda Week does list a few parties on the sands, but during the week Callahan's players will meet Princeton, Yale, and experienced squads from the Royal Navy, the Bermuda AA, and the British Army...
...first royal visit to London's famed central criminal court building since their great-grandfather, Edward VII, officiated at its opening 42 years...
...Denmark outdid itself to celebrate King Frederik IX's soth birthday. Among his gifts: a racing motorboat, two carpets, a big electric stove with kitchen utensils, a tractor for plowing fire belts in the royal forest and, from a nine-year-old wellwisher, a letter containing some cigarettes...