Word: bai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less than 17 separate rituals were required to transform the Maiden into a Maharani (courtesy title). The first ceremonies admitted her to Sir Tukoji's caste, and made her the adopted daughter of his potent kinswoman, the Princess Tara-bai. With her social status thus assured, she became by a second adoption the daughter of a Court functionary, Colonel Lam Bhate, whose duty it became to give her in marriage...
...crystal chandelier and mirrors with the ham bone and flings the ale bottles-not to mention ash trays, knives & bric a-brac-through the householder's high-priced canvases by Rubens and Van Dyck? For such deeds, causing $50,000 damage in the Fifth Avenue apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired zinc man (TIME, July 11), a Manhattan judge last week sentenced one John Healy to a prison term of one and one-half to three years. But, said the judge, the New York Legislature could not have foreseen, when it framed the state law on vandalism, such...
Last week an interior decorator went to the Fifth Avenue triplex apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired Danish-American zinc man. He was commissioned to remove some 16th Century Flemish tapestries which Mr. Lihme was lending for exhibition. But, being a first class decorator, he knew he would see even finer things than tapestries at Mr. Lihme's. He knew that in the Lihme drawing-room was the $50,000 "Portrait of an Old Man" which Peter Paul Rubens painted some 300 years ago, a patrician subject whose disdainful brow, thin smile and scornfully intelligent eye must have been...