Word: viceroy
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...most autocratic of rulers, but Ras and his gorgeously clad Marshals "batted not an eyelid" which quite intrigued the people and caused them to "vive" him more than ever. While in Paris the Prince occupied the royal suite at the Quai d'Orsay; the Marshals-Ras Hailov, Viceroy Godjam, Ras Seyoum, Ras Nado and Governor Ilubador-were housed elsewhere...
...still believe it is possible for India to remain within the British Empire." This conservative phrase was uttered not by Lord Reading, Viceroy of India, nor by Ramsay MacDonald. The words are those of the "wonderworker" Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, now recuperating at the Poona mountain-rosort from the effects of confinement in Yeravda Prison for sedition...
...heroine of the play, is said to be the product of diligent study on the part of the co-authors in the character of the modern actress. The British Museum, on the other hand, has yielded the secrets of the unusual life and tragic death of Don John, Spanish Viceroy of California about 1640. The main plot, which incidentally contains numerous other plots, is the result of the meeting between these two. The complications become so frequent that the title, "Who's Who," is said to be a confession of the inability of the authors themselves to unravel the plot...
FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY Frederick John Napier Thesiger, Viscount Chelmsford, Conservative, lawyer. His appointment was a great surprise. He was once Viceroy of India...
...people of India, with the consent of the Viceroy elected him to present India's case at the Near Eastern Peace Settlement. In 1921, he went to the Washington Disarmament Conference, as press representative for India. His broad knowledge, cosmopolitan experience and sympathies, and his compelling eloquence and personality have brought him the reputation of being the foremost authority on the cultural, economic and political relations between the East and the West...