Word: mah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Che Mah, 88, self-styled "smallest man in the world; in Chicago. He was 28 inches in height with a queue 13 feet long. Imported from Choo Sang (island) by P. T. Barnum in 1881, he became wealthy from self-exhibition, retired in 1890, was twice married to U. S. women, by the first of whom he had a son of normal size...
...publicity. Abolished. In addition many minor taxes were abolished, including those on the following items: Cameras, films, firearms, ammunition, smokers' articles, slot machines, mah jong sets, objets d'art, jewelry, bowling alleys and pool rooms, shooting galleries, riding academies, yachts, deeds and conveyances. Taxes on lower-priced cigars were reduced...
SOURCE.........................REDUCTION Income taxes.................$164,400,000 Estate tax.....................15,000,000 Gift tax........................2,000,000 Capital stock tax..............68,500,000 Cigars.........................17,000,000 Automobiles....................80,400,000 Jewelry.........................8,000,000 Admissions and dues.............1,250,000 Mah jong sets...
Wilde's imagination was never "fired," but of all stimulants to its lucubration the Orient was most potent. The masque concerns a charming maiden, Mah Phru, who consoled King Meng Beng while he awaited the coming of his Cingalese bride from Ceylon, bearing him two sons in the interim. When he returned to his palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants...
...Mah jong sets...