Word: barni
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Minuscule King Prajadhipok in a white dress uniform, the sunlight gleaming from his new spectacles, stood on the bridge, beside pretty little Queen Rambai Barni. Glittering with decorations, a delegation of relations and officials were waiting under a red-&-green lacquer pagoda. Not a sound came from the crowds on the shore until family greetings were over...
Prince Svasti, gracious, Westernized father of Queen Rambai Barni of Siam, went to a performance of The Green Pastures in Manhattan. Entering the theatre he spied a poor man and his wife who held a small baby in her arms. Prince Svasti stopped to admire the child, offered the man a roll of money. At first the man refused. Then he broke down, told the Prince that he had three more children, that he was jobless, about to be evicted from his home. When a crowd gathered, Prince Svasti took up a collection, persuaded the indigent pair to accept...
...they are carried over regular telephone wires) but the image on the little screen is uncertain, like a snapshot taken out of focus. Weirdly this snapshot rolls its unfocused eyes and moves its puffy lips. Celebrities who have telephoned their pictures and voices include King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam, who chattered in their own language, and Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, who said: "Why, if you linked up the important U. S. cities with this thing you would get enough business from the banks alone to make money...
...three principal visitors at the White House last week were King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam and Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of last month's Colorado blizzard (TIME, April 6, 13). The ailing little King, first absolute monarch ever to cross the Executive Mansion's threshold, called on President Hoover at 10:15 one morning, hurried back to his quarters to receive the President at n, then spent the afternoon in a dentist's office. After a state dinner at the White House that evening, during which Master Untiedt was permitted to peep...
April 20?Arrival in the U. S. of King Prajadhipok* and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam; at Portal, N. Dak. from Vancouver, B. C. U. S. residence during their stay: Uphir Hall" at Purchase, N. Y., grandiose, high-walled estate of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict of the onetime U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain...