Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall of the Turkish Empire its ruler was both Sultan and Caliph or "pope" of Islam. On the French Riviera, thoroughly deposed so far as Turkey was concerned, lived and still lives "His Imperial Majesty the Caliph Abdul Medjid II" and a ripe 17 was his beauteous daughter Princess Dur-e-Shawar in 1931. Beauteous too was his niece the Sultana Nilofar Hanim, great-granddaughter of Turkish Sultan Murad V. Best of all, the Caliph had no son and his hoary beard was that of a Patriarch unlikely to become again a father. At the death of this pope...
...Residency. No royal and ruling Indian, not even His Exalted Highness, ever escapes a British Residency, an outpost of London which makes him feel the more or less iron hand of Britain in a less or more velvet glove. In his early days as Hyderabad's ruler the present Nizam dismissed the Diwan or acting cabinet and directed affairs as his own Prime Minister for some years with such vigor that "The Residency" was often rumored pressing for his abdication. Came the War. The Nizam's $100,000,000 gift to Britain squared many things, and Sir Akbar...
...part of the library of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich. This book was written in 1826, but the Russian Czar refused Pushkin permission to publish it, urging that he rewrite the story in the form of an historical romance like those of Sir Walter Scott. Finally Pushkin prevailed upon the ruler to grant permission, saying that he needed money for his impending marriage...
...Nimmanahaeminda expressed surprise that no one in the whole University had a name longer than he. "Why, that's nothing--look at this" he said, holding up a whole page of Siamese script for the interviewer to puruse. "That's the name and titles of King Prajahdipok, former ruler of Siam. A whole page--and mine is a more 15 letters...
Delegate Edwards said that when the ruler prepared to marry his 301st wife, the others forced him to renounce this plan by abandoning the Shah en masse, seeking sanctuary in the British Legation. Red as a beet, Iranian Delegate Nasrollah Entezam demanded that this tale be expunged from the record...