Word: sultanism
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...Almost simultaneously Prime Minister David Lloyd George announced that a major naval base would be built at Singapore, years of puttering about with surveyors and dredging machines followed, but not until 1928 did work really begin. Later Australia and New Zealand, the Federated Malay States and the swarthy Sultan of Johore, whose land lies just beyond Singapore island, became sufficiently alarmed at Japanese imperialism to come through with contributions. Work progressed rapidly, 14 miles away from the city of Singapore on the opposite side of the island...
...academic degrees, having graduated from "Sheff" in the Class of 1897 and returning for an A.B. the following year. After law school he joined his father-by special dispensation-for a cruise on the old U.S.S. Kentucky from Manhattan to Hong Kong, dining on the way with the Sultan of Turkey. Back in Manhattan in 1901, Mr. Chester went from law to business and back again to law, and then in 1917 he shut up shop and went to Plattsburg to earn a commission as an infantry major...
Roland Young is horribly miscast as the Sultan of Bagdad, and Louise Hovick as the villainess is unconvincing if not actually pathetic in her portrayal, but then the script did not give either of the two much in the way of material. June Lang does a perfect job providing a more or less platonic love interest with Tony Martin...
...prompt action wrecked plans for a revolt," declared General Nogues, who tells the puppet Sultan of Morocco what to do. "Our troops will stay in the Medina as long as necessary. The French Government unanimously supports what I have done and all France is behind...
When things have come to such a pass that the Sultan turns commoner and runs for president, Eddie to his horror is made a write-in opposition candidate, campaigns against himself to no effect: he sweeps the country except for the outlying provinces of Maino and Vermontash. The nine old councilors declare the election unconstitutional, and Eddie leaves town on a magic carpet, which he controls by a cantrip-"inflation" to go up, ''deflation" to come down. Eventually the carpet burns away from under him,* and he comes to earth with a thud, wakes to find himself...