Word: sultan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consults the Sultan...
...after four rip-roaring days and many blunders (not necessarily his own). At the end he strode into the headquarters of Admiral Michelier with a pair of pearl-handled .45-caliber pistols strapped to his legs and a tommy gun under one arm. So impressed was the Sultan of Morocco that he presented Patton with the special order of Ouissam Alaouite, with the citation: "Les Lions dans leurs tanières tremblent en le voyant approcher" (The lions in their dens tremble at his approach). According to unofficial reports, he also impressed Franco's commanders in Spanish Morocco, doing...
Would he adore a sultan? He obey...
...five he was taken to see Rimsky-Korsakov's Tsar Sultan. After one hearing he could and did sing long passages from the opera. Sometimes he would sit at the piano, strike a chord and lisp: "That's the stars." Sometimes he struck a treble note, said: "That's somebody looking out the window." At 13, he entered Leningrad Conservatory. At 19, he composed his First Symphony (one of the most popular) as part of his course...
...idea. It was suggested for Kaiser Bill during World War I, and according to legend it proved a great hit in 1402 A.D. when Tamerlane took caged Sultan Bayezid I (sometimes known as The Thunderbolt) on a road tour through what is now Turkey...