Word: sultanate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Xenia Sultan, $65,000 champion sire, blue-blooded bull; at Brookfield, Mass...
...fake Sultan of Zanzibar, since become a British painter famed for his mild demeanor, was once accorded thunderous salutes and every other courtesy when he inspected the British fleet...
...last the Sultan [Abd-el-Krim], gave me another wife, a mule and a house. . . . One of my wives, called Fat'ma, as half of all Arab women are, has a son, whom I have called Mohammed. . . . My son, I hope, . . . will never learn the evil ways of what you call civilization. . . . The only world fit for a man to live in is the Mohammedan world...
...when they found they must pay board and yet fast for two weeks. But the city flourished, perhaps on compensations which the New York World misunderstood when it attacked the city as a nest of impropriety and license. These attacks put the city out of business, nor could its Sultan retrieve damages from the World in court. The times were narrow, oppressive. Even a chain of Macfadden lunchrooms failed, all save three, after "revolutionizing the restaurant business" so that "you can get wholesome health-building foods most anywhere...
...Princess Tarhata Karam, the niece of the Sultan of Sulu who attended the University of Illinois, has returned to the Philippines and is now by the side of her husband in the up rising of which he is the head. He is Datu Tahil, a high dignitary of the Moros, a people who have always been rebellious against the American rule; and her presence in the zone of fighting is said to be a serious problem to the Government troops who realize that if they should happen to injure the Princess there would be a general revolution among her people...