Word: indians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another advantage about East Indian titles such as rajah and maharajah would be that for potent or puissant lady magnates you could say "begum...
...Indian editors, commenting on the ways of Afghans, noted that while boiling in oil is a venerable Asiatic tradition, dating from the wars of Alexander with the Persians, blowing prisoners to bloody fragments from a cannon is a British invention instituted as the official punishment for mutinous Indians...
...cover," in stamp language, is any envelope or package wrapper to which stamps are affixed. Mr. Hind's Mauritius cover, bearing a tuppenny and a one-penny Mauritius stamp, is considered philately's most valuable item, worth $50,000 at least. Mauritius is a knobby little island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, once (1598-1710) a Dutch colony, once (1715-1814) a French colony, ever since a British possession...
...libretto-a tale of two city-states, Tuluum and Chichen-Itza, whose kings warred while a Tuluum prince loved a Chichen princess-was contrived by Don Luis Rosado Vega, Yucatan troubadour, once jailed for translating the Mexican constitution into Indian, now director of the Museum of History and Archaeology in Merida...
...laugh of Paris in his day and "Pere" Cezanne of whom the worthies of Aix said, with a shrug: "Surely he is mad." Today the sale of a Rousseau or a Cezanne is an art event. They run into five figures. America had Blakelock, painter of dark, glowing Indian encampments, who was committed to an insane asylum and kept in for the greater part of his life. It is well for the Fauves* of Paris that solicitous friends and relatives never sought court injunctions. Wild-beast Henri Matisse is still considered batty by many a staid U. S. art critic...