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...Empress left St. Cloud with her staff, her pets and her retainers to board the imperial yacht Aigle at Venice and sail to Suez. On the way they called on Italy's Victor Emmanuel (whom Eugénie detested), the King & Queen of Greece, and the Sultan of Turkey. When she left, the Sultan gave her a carpet on which was embroidered a portrait of her husband, the Emperor, with real human hair and a mustache. "Mon Dieu," exclaimed one of Eugénie's ladies, "quelle horreur...
Sportwriters knocked themselves out thinking up new names and superlatives for him: The Sultan of Swat, the Bambino, The Colossus of Clout. He didn't need all that; he was color itself-a fellow built on heroic, swaggering lines, an enormous head on a barrel of a body...
While posing as the Sultan of Zanzibar, he reviewed a unit of the British fleet at Portsmouth, England. With his "suite,"* Cole rode down on a special train for the review, and he noticed that the dining-car attendants were without white gloves. He had the train stopped and white gloves were procured from the next town, as "His Royal Highness" was unused to being served by ungloved attendants. The actual review of the fleet was carried out successfully...
...onetime Vassar actress, Miss Madeira still appears in student and faculty plays (some recent roles: the sultan in Arabian Nights, Two-Gun Dick in a Wild West show). Last week the girls put on a birthday performance of Miss Madeira's favorite scenes from Shakespeare and watched her cut an enormous cake. Then the headmistress, in a new flowered print dress, made a speech in praise of longevity ("Growing old is a delightful experience") and teaching ("A journey in the country of the mind"). Was Miss Madeira planning to quit? Said she: "I'm going to retire when...
...Though far from the best hoax in university history. Cantabrigians would rank higher the fictitious Sultan of Zanzibar (the late William Horace de Vere Cole, brother-in-law of former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain), who, in 1910, bamboozled the Vice Chancellor into entertaining him at tea. The record at Oxford appears to belong to "George Psalmanazar" (real name unknown), who palmed himself off, in 1704, as an authority on the language of Formosa, published a fake Formosan geography and history, taught at Oxford for six months, was not exposed until four years later...