Word: buttonless
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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Instead of the frayed and buttonless clothes which he wears around the home palace grounds to save money, the miserly Nizam wore a well-pressed and spotless outfit-yellow turban, tweed coat, loose white trousers and black shoes. He peeled $1,000 off his own bundle (at least $200 million), laid in a supply of tea, cakes, nuts, ice cream, tomato juice and lemon squash, and gave an elegant garden party for New Delhi's 400, among them junketing Eleanor Roosevelt and India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The Nizam gathered six sons and four daughters around...