Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hays had answered: "Yes, sir: as a total . . . I think that was the maximum amount, $75,000. . . . His contribution for any amount that he would be obligated for or would pay in any event was a maximum...
Miss Miller. Perhaps equally with the Dolly Sisters, fortune favored, last week, Miss Nancy Ann Miller, famed fiancée of the abdicated Maharaja of Indore, Sir Tukoji Rao Holkar...
Last week it was announced that Miss Miller was about to espouse Hinduism, and would marry Sir Tukoji during the present week. Thereupon untold quarts & gallons of jewels will be hers to wear, though his to retain. For more than a year the authorities of the British Raj and those of Indore have been in controversy over the possible future complications ensuing upon the marriage of a U. S. damsel to a Hindu who already has two wives...
Further complicating the nuptials is Sir Tukoji's notorious reputation as the ruler who sent agents to maim and attempt to kill his chief dancing girl Mumtaz Begum. Because of this deed he was deposed as Maharaja of Indore...
...British Minister to China, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, was "censured" last week as a result of sensational investigations at the Foreign Office which crescendoed in the dismissal of Assistant Under Secretary John Duncan Gregory...