Word: sultanas
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...years before anybody heard of Plymouth Rock. Memphis, the town that Andrew Jackson could have named after himself, but decided to stamp with the Greek derivation of an Egyptian word that meant "good abode." Memphis, where in 1865 1,450 Union prisoners were blown to bits with the steamboat Sultana in a maritime disaster surpassed only by the Titanic. Memphis, where in 1878 yellow fever took 200 lives a day, gutted the population. Memphis, whose homicide record usually tops that of every other city in the world. Memphis, bluff-built and brawling, perched at the points of three states, securely...
Johore knows the new Scottish Sultana of old. Years ago she came out as the charming bride of Dr. William Wilson, who doctored the Sultan. Gradually the Sultan began to call Mrs. Wilson by her first name, Helen, and stage tiger hunts in her honor...
...Johore Bahru, capital of Johore, last week Sultana Helen appeared at her coronation in a Paris gown of shell-pink Venetian lace. Like Queen Mary's on state occasions, her bosom blazed with enormous diamonds. Her neck could not be seen beneath its ropes of pearls, and the diamond earrings of Dr. Wilson's former wife reached almost to her shoulders...
...Coronation ritual proceeded Sultana Helen made her responses with a soft Scottish burr. At last, with the Lesser (female) Crown of Johore firmly planted on her Nordic head, she rode with swart Sultan Sir Ibrahim triumphantly around Johore Bahru, received the abject homage of its groveling, grinning populace...
Cooler than the nearby island of Singapore. Johore is just the realm for a Scottish Sultana. Officially the Sultan is "independent," but accepts a thumping yearly British subsidy and does as he is told. In greatest breadth Johore is only 100 mi., in greatest length 165 mi. Mostly covered with green forests, Johore supports an easy-going population of 337,000 who export rubber, import strong drink, including Scotch...