Word: sultana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brown eyes were those of Bella, a Swiss cow who is the pet & pride of President Hainisch. For years she has been the bovine sultana of his model dairy farm in Lower Austria. Cartoonists draw the President in company with Bella more often than they picture him alone. Yet last week Dr. Hainisch took firmly away from Bella with his own hand a small bell of solid gold which he had hung, two years ago, about her neck...
...sleek young lioness, the Duce, intrigued, named her Italia Bella. He is wont to enter her iron barred cage crooning "Italia Mia, . . ." and only twice has she scratched him (TIME, July 12). Recently her sleek flanks grew pendulous. The Fascist press began exultantly to refer to her as Sultana, Italia, and she brought forth three cubs...
Though these last seemed appropriate names for the cubs of Sultana, Italia, Signor Benito Mussolini did not approve them. He dropped a word, instead, and suddenly some thousand Fascists wrote to suggest that his given name be divided into three syllables (Benito) and each syllable doubled to form the name of a cub. Last week it was formally announced that the offspring of Sultana Italia will be called "Bebe," 'Nini" and Toto." Within a few days two sets of human triplets at Rome and another at Ravenna were similarly christened...
...down his royal cheeks; he has shut himself in his private suite in his house near the Bois de Boulogne; he walks around in circles, lamenting his fate in Oriental fashion." The Baroness d'Erlanger, former Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, whom he had once asked to be his Sultana, sent a message. Ahmad only mourned the more...