Word: satrap
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...admirable news-article entitled: The Coming Out Party, dealing with the life and works of Al Capone, omits one news-note. Among the people who saw him before he left the "pen" was his lawyer: U. S. Congressman Benjamin M. Colder, a son-in-law of Mastbaum, late satrap of cinemaland in Philadelphia...
...studied in Paris, and, as scarcely more than a student, created one of the roles in Pelleas under the coaching of Debussy. Then, with a brilliant career in her hands, she married a Hollander, an official in the East Indies. To Java she went to preside over a satrap's strange eastern household. She lived there for several years. As a powerful white functionary's wife, she moved as a great person among the potentates of the oriental island. She tells of living as an honored guest in the harem of the Sultan of Solo. The orient entered...