Word: cochineal
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...Jammu & Kashmir, Rajputana Agency and the Punjab States Agency; and scholarly, muscular Arthur Cunningham Lothian of the Political Department of the Government of India who must obtain the signature of "The Richest Man in the World" in Hyderabad, as well as those of the native rulers of Mysore Travancore, Cochin, Central India and the Eastern States Agencies...
Pigneau de Béhaine, and French troops, Nguyen phua Anh reconquered Annam and Cochin-China and made himself Emperor under the name Gia Long. When the bishop died, Gia Long built him a great temple and wrote his epitaph. Some of the Nguyens turned Catholic, remained true to the memory of great Pigneau de Béhaine. The Imperial line did not. It massacred great quantities of Annamite Catholics, including its own distant Nguyen kin, and brought more French troops tramping across the rice fields into the Imperial City of Huê. Prince Vinh Tuy (Bao Dai), educated from...
...allowed to look on Annam's Emperor sitting under the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in the Throne Room. But the palace has other rooms for the parties Bao Dai dearly loves. To one such party lately went a pretty 18-year-old girl from French Cochin-China to the south. She was a commoner, daughter of a well-born Chinese ex-Governor and her name was Marie Nguyen Hu Hao. She, too, had been edu-cated in Europe, in a convent near Paris. She liked detective stories and jazz and was ready to try her hand...
Gaston Doumergue's career has been simple. Born at Aigues-Vives in Card 70 years ago, he served in the colonial service in Cochin-China, first entered the Chamber of Deputies in 1893. In the past 40 years he has popped in & out of various Cabinet posts, was Premier for a brief period (December 1913-May 1914). He first became an international figure in 1924. Amid a cyclone of charges and counter-charges Alexandre Millerand was accused of having interfered in party affairs, was forced to resign the Presidency. Politicians turned instinctively to the round little fellow...
...small mammals and birds, material that would answer many a question of taxonomy and faunal distribution. Meanwhile, Theodore Roosevelt was collecting big game for the habitat groups of the Field Museum. His account of his hunt for the huge sledang and the cow-like banting in the jungles of Cochin-China occupies the last third of the narrative...