Word: shah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factory robbed of its best market and source of raw materials. Therefore it was at London that the doings of Ministers Tewfik and Tchitcherin were watched most anxiously last week. In England it was felt that the understandings known to have been arrived at by British agents with the Shah of Persia would prove a bulwark in that quarter...
Shahinsha Reza Shah Pahlavi of Persia: "I, heavily guarded as usual, made a motor tour of inspection through the province of Man-zandaran, last week. I barely escaped death when one of my automobiles, loaded; with munitions, blew up. Eight of my officers were destroyed. I, whose title is 'The King of Kings Reza King Pahlavi' rode serenely...
...wise man once called Asia the subconscious mind of Europe, and since the beard is to the face what the East is to Western civilization many scholars have thought that Peter was quite right to shave. He did not want to wear his subconscious on his chin. But the Shah of Persia, who affected still the long spiky bristle of the mandarin, was worried. When he heard how the naked chin of Peter gleamed blue and shameless in his new palace, Petersburg, upon the Neva, he sent him a fine rug as one who would say: In mystery the twig...
...quiet hotel and had his luggage brought up. In one suitcase he had a docket of papers, the pedigree of the rug attested by the curators of the Austrian State Museum and witnessed by the British consul in Vienna. It was at least 150 years old when the Shah gave it to Peter. Leopold used it as a tapestry in the bedroom of his summer palace. Other Emperors took good care of it; at last it went to the State Museum. French officials said that it was worth twelve million francs and taxed it accordingly. Victor Behar values...
...When the Shah gave the rug to Peter most Emperors were huntsmen. Wearied after a day of statecraft, they would spend a week pelting after boars. Peter was an impressionable man. In his youth he made the Grand Tour and lived, for a while, in France, where he enjoyed all the pleasures of the Court. He brought back...