Word: sultanate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play for them the wild notes of songs which western ears had never heard before. "What have you brought us?" they cried; whereupon Leopold Stokowski showed them three Javanese gongs, sacred objects which made a pleasant noise when struck. These he said he had wheedled from the Sultan of Java...
Instead of notes, Conductor Stokowski offered his admirers notations which he had made upon music heard in Java. Conductor Stokowski said that he had been entertained by the good Sultan of Djokjakarta in his 15-acre palace at the wedding ceremonies of certain of the children of several of the Sultan's 3,000 wives. At this wedding feast he had heard Javanese "gamalongs" or orchestras which he described...
Moulay Abd-el-Hafid, deposed Sultan of Morocco, last week recovered from the French Government his large estates in North Africa. A guardian was appointed, however, to keep him from becoming profligate...
Bubbling with a champagne sparkle of mellower, sweeter, vintage is the tale of a Syrian from the sidewalks of New York,†† who went to visit the great, romantic chieftain of Arabians, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz. Before a backdrop colorful with the picturesqueness of desert life strides a stalwart, six-foot Sultan, who scorns and rejects Occidental customs, yet is shrewd enough to entertain visiting British statesmen with their favorite brands of whiskey, mineral water, and even "kippers." When the Britons are gone, all residual whiskey & soda & kippers are abandoned on the desert...
...accomplished. Albanians, filthy, wretched, impoverished, fly-bitten, famine starved and earthquake stricken were not much interested. They know that Ahmed Bey Zogu is President because he is also Chief of the most potent of feudal Albanian tribes. There is no one to stop him from calling himself "King," "Sultan," "Tsar," "Shah," "Mogul," "Mikado," "Inca," "Cazique," "Way-wode," "Vaivode" or even "Tycoon...