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...borne him no son. Said she: "We are very happy with what we have [two daughters. Shadara, 5, and Sita, 1, with their father in Cairo]. My husband has a son by a former marriage who is now on the throne of Indore." The circle of red powder on her forehead was not a caste mark, the Maharani explained, "but an auspicious sign which one may or may not wear without violating ethics." Because she and her husband had visited India only twice since their marriage, spending practically all of their time at their St. Germain home...
...home in Philadelphia at the age of eleven to sell newspapers in Manhattan; back to Philadelphia to sell soap for his father; into the towns of eastern Pennsylvania where he came to be known as the Wonder Boy Salesman; finally to Chicago, where he peddled more soap, then baking powder and then, because he found it more profitable, chewing...
...arms, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For years Doukhobors, men and women, insisted on parading naked through Saskatchewan villages. Last year Doukhobor women enraged the Mounties by sitting naked on their fences and jeering. Police officers corrected this by issuing to their men spray guns filled with itching powder...
...Hiram Percy Maxim's uncle, the late explosive-making Hudson Maxim (1853-1927). But "Dr. Shush" is really Hiram Percy Maxim, noise's bogeyman. Remarkable have been the Maine family of Maxims. Hudson Maxim, who started business as a printer, was the first to make smokeless powder in the U. S. Maxim, N. J. was named for him. He sold his powder inventions to E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. and became their consulting engineer in time to make a fortune from the Spanish-American War. Later he invented other high explosives, projectiles and devices. He blew...
...Fritz von Opel worked with powder, but has lately been inactive...