Word: sultans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fair") Exposition, Reporters Lillie West Brown and George Ade shared a desk in the city room of the Chicago Daily News. Reporter Ade rose to be a special writer, then dramatic editor, then conductor of a column, finally a free-lance humorist (Fables in Slang) and playwright (The Sultan of Sulu). But Mrs. Lillie West Brown?who preferred to be known as "Amy Leslie"? stayed on at the Daily News as dramatic critic for 40 years. Last week, with fanfare and accolade, the Daily News announced the retirement of the oldest U. S. woman theatre reviewer. "Think...
...Grand Master S. Tartakower of Poland: an international Chess Masters Tournament at Liege, Belgium, defeating Mir Sultan Khan of India in 37 moves by a Bishop & Knight ending in the eleventh round...
...squalid, sweltering Muscat last week the Sultan of Oman was glad within him: from Washington had come good news. Henry Lewis Stimson, the faraway, almost mythical Secretary of State of the U. S. was in a mood to play Santa Claus. His gift: revision of a treaty into which Sultan Seyed Syeed Bey was inveigled by shrewd Yankee traders 97 years ago. which provided that U. S. citizens should always be welcomed to Oman's ports, be free to sell or barter their wares without being charged a tariff duty of more than 5%. Also included was a clause...
Shipwrecks of U. S. vessels on the coast of Oman being few indeed, the Sultan is content to let this Yankee clause stand...
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade by Philippe Gaubert and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra (Columbia, $12)?An excellent recording of the popular picture-music based on the fantastic tales with which Scheherazade supposedly beguiled the Sultan Schahriar over a period of 1,001 nights...