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Word: sarawaki (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...late 2nd Earl of Inch-cape, P. & O. Co. shipping tycoon, making something like a royal alliance, considering the importance of P. & O. in the Indies. But Elizabeth (Princess Pearl) married Jazz Bandster Harry Roy. At her marriage the Roy Jazz Band played the leader's original composition Sarawaki as a wedding march. Nancy Valerie outraged her father's sensibilities even more by marrying Wrestler Bob Gregory. Still worse, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory promptly journeyed to Hollywood, where the by-now publicity-conscious Princess Baba announced an unfulfilled scheme of buying a rival kingdom to Sarawak and calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAWAK: Kingdom Lost | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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