Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor Pasteur Institutes have been established over the whole world. The latest is at Bangkok, where snake serum is being developed. There was even a play written last year to praise his life...
...Bangkok, fair capital of warm lagoons and stately public buildings, rang last week with two sensations as opposite as her dozing Buddhist temples and clanging modern street cars...
...Chiengmai stately priests flung garlands upon the baby elephant, poured lustral water on its quivering trunk and performed the complicated mystic rite of "Tarn Kwan." From Bangkok experts set out to confirm that the elephant was indeed a "true white" and therefore sacred. Siamese offered prayers of thanksgiving...
...year I have been anything but well. "But apart from the question of fitness, what other game is there for the rainy season? Golf or tennis is more often than not out of the question. Therefore squash is a game which should be encouraged, and I hope that Bangkok will provide more courts than it has at present. "I hope, too, that the Siamese will take up the game more keenly than before. It is a great game and is suited to the Siamese." Beaming, gracious, His Majesty then presented a gold cup to the winner of the Royal Squash...
Spaniards. Rangoon, Burma; then Bangkok, Siam; then Saigon and Hanoi, French Indo-China, strained their eyes in turn, and in turn beheld Captains Loriga and Gonzalez-Gallarza who had come all the way from their native Spain on a hopping-trip from Madrid in two planes. They were to keep hopping until they reached Manila in the Philippines. They received word that in crossing Japan the military authorities would not allow them to land on the Island of Formosa. But Japan's warning proved unnecessary. Landing at Macao, Asiatic Portugal, one flyer struck a tree; his comrade's plane...