Word: sultanic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debauching along the Riviera (TIME, Mar. 10), His Majesty, Sultan Ahmad Shah, seventh sovereign of the Kajâr dynasty, lost his job. No longer did Persians refer to him as Shâhinshâh (King of Kings...
...Major Frank Holmes, engineer, arrived in Baghdad to chat with the Sultan of Nejd about an oil concession to a British syndicate. He will make similar proposals to the Sultan of Koweit and King Faisal of Iraq...
...siren too corpulent to vamp anyone but a Turkish Sultan...
...rival in a sordid brawl, forgets his past and achieves respectability, only to have the long arm of the law reach out to yank him back to degradation. Nita Naldi as the siren who twice tries to wreck him is too corpulent to vamp anyone but a Turkish sultan...
Ahmad, ex-Shah of Persia, seventh of the Kajar dynasty, youthful and rotund, learned last week in Paris that the Persian Parliament had deposed him, that he no longer had the right to be termed Sultan. Depatches stated that the 26-year-old exile "has wept continuously since receiving the awful news; great tears roll 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...