Word: taj
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, when Lamonts get thrown into jail for communistic agitation and Coughlin rules the waves, people who still own million-dollar nests at Newport speak of them apologetically, if at all, and hope furtively that no one will noise it about. While the gleaming Taj Mahals still stand in not-so-mute testimony of the glory that was Ogden Goelet's, Cornelius Vanderbilt's, and Oliver Belmont's, most of the notables of Newport have packed up the family jewels and scandals and gone off in search of simpler dwelling-places on the coasts, of Maine. Not only did conscience...
...modesty but dignity prompted Tobacco-man Duke's Daughter Doris, honeymooning at the Taj Mahal in a private railway car with her Husband James Henry Roberts Cromwell, to protest last week: "I'm a married woman now. 'Tobacco Queen!' What a name...
...pale, haggard man mumbled the words to himself as he slumped lower in his chair in a fourth-floor apartment of the swank colonnaded Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay one day last week. India manager of the great London grain firm of Strauss & Co., he had just been ordered to close his office, stop all payments at once. Presently a messenger arrived with a cablegram. It was from his wife in England. "Try not to worry. Good luck and love." Slowly the man dragged himself across the room to the window. . . . Later that day when they had removed his battered...
...wrecks a borrowed car, is cast off by his wife. By stupid luck he muddles out of his despair to remain the same conceited show-off to the end. Good shot: ¶Ma & Pa Fisher after the wedding reading Aubrey's travel folders on Waikiki Beach, the Taj Mahal and the Riviera while the honeymooners embark on the night boat to Albany...
Solemnly the priests waited upon Sheik Taj-ed-Din. "Excellency, the Yo-Yo is the reason for the drought!" they cried. "The up-and-down movement of these infidel tops counteracts the prayers of the pious for rain. Allah is angry! Rain will never fall again in Syria while the wicked play with...