Word: sultanate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany and Austria against Britain, France, Belgium and Russia] Egypt is placed under the protection of His Majesty [King George V] and will henceforth constitute a British Protectorate. The suzerainty of Turkey over Egypt is thus terminated." After the War the British puppetized on the throne of Egypt as "Sultan" the father of today's Boy-King, His Late Majesty Fuad I, who in his declining years was styled "King" (TIME, May 11, 1936 et ante). Last week, however, big-boned, fair and six-foot-tall Farouk I was correctly hailed by Egyptian dignitaries representing...
...golden fillet once worn by Ancient Egypt's King Tutankhamen and only unearthed in recent years. This was a good idea, except that Mohammedan sovereigns are never crowned, and Premier Nahas knew that the Egyptian people grew accustomed, when they were subjects of Turkey, to seeing each new Sultan symbolically invested with the Sword. Fortunately modern Egypt possesses the gorgeously jeweled sword of Mohammed Ali, founder of the present Egyptian dynasty, or so the Premier thought. Upon actually looking for this historic State Sword, it simply could not be found. With neither sword nor crown exactly available, His Majesty...
Mario Chamlee (Archer Ragland Cholmondeley) has given almost 100 impersonations of Marouf, the cobbler who runs away from his nagging wife, pretends to be a rich merchant, makes a monkey of the Sultan of Khaitan and marries the Sultan's daughter. Chamlee first took the part nine years ago at Ravinia Park (Chicago), later in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Lille and Brussels. When he arrived to sing his first Marouf in Paris, Composer Rabaud kept him up till 3 a.m. going over the score, called him a "delicious interpreter...
...Among the few ruling princes officially to attend the Coronations of Georges V & VI was the kinky-haired Sultan of Zanzibar, Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub. All British bandmasters in London were given special editions of the Zanzibar national anthem last week, found that it sounded remarkably like Home Sweet Home. It has no words...
...tribal dignitaries, to show they were doing the Generalissimo the same honor they would do a Sultan, walked past him expressionless and with "glazed eyes"- thus symbolizing that the person so honored is too great to be looked in the face by persons less exalted...