Word: sultan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demolished several days prior, same day Westminster Abbey and the House of Lords were hit. Day after this announcement, Nazi bombs landed so close to Canterbury Cathedral they shattered all its substitute stained glass. Shopping in Canterbury's streets, Lydia Cecily Hill, 27, cabaret friend of the opulent Sultan of Johore, 67, was slain. The Sultan, who is acquainted also with the Franklin D. Roosevelts and Mae West, expressed deep sorrow and consoled Mother Hill. She well knew that the only reason he isn't her son-in-law was prudish pressure by the sahibs of Singapore, where...
...abruptly asked: "Mr. Cramp, at what school of naval architecture were you educated?" Said Cramp: "Your highness, I was educated in my father's shipyard, and he was educated in his father's shipyard. We founded our own school of naval architecture." The Tsar, the Mikado, the Sultan of Turkey all bought Cramp battleships. Japan's Cramp-built Kasagi sank Russia's Cramp-built Variag...
...around Tangier were internationalized in 1904 when France and Spain partitioned Morocco. The U. S. joined 26 other nations in the Act of Algeciras (1906), which followed Kaiser Wilhelm IPs insistence that the Sultan of Morocco continue to rule, though under French-Spanish protection. Thus the U. S. is represented in the international assembly which legislates for Tangier and the U. S. Consul is a member of the governing Committee of Control...
...believer in repetition, Sculptor Wheelock keeps on experimenting. His lively, engaging pieces range from a plump, belligerent figure of Fiorello LaGuardia to an abstract, pinafored Little Girl, from a bat-swinging Babe Ruth (Sultan of Swat), all curves and planes, to a shiny, swivel-hipped Black Dancer. "When a man stops adventuring," says practical Warren Wheelock, "he stops being an artist...
...wish therefore to propose . . . the obvious solution: that the University make arrangements with the Turkish government to purchase the entire stocks of black samite veils, which were seized at the time of the confiscation of the late Sultan's harem, and add them to the waitresses' uniforms...