Word: malays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slightly lower than the recent peak prices of more than ?318 ($1,540.71) at London and more than 71? at Manhattan. London gambling in tin has apparently ceased for a while, but London's control of this metal has not, for Great Britain holds suzerainty over the Federated Malay States (holders of 50% of the world's tin ore stores*) and controls 75% of the world's smelters...
Malaise in Malay...
...with his life; but if one stands in its shadow by the light of the full moon, he will hear the secrets of the future. All of which ties a string around six short stories, wherein English folk drink gin pahits and have emotional disturbances in Borneo and the Malay Peninsula...
...first story, however, an Englishman fights malaria, long before and long afterward, with whiskey. One day his wife finds him lying drunk in bed, "with nothing on but a sarong." She cuts his throat with a Malay sword. In another yarn, an Irishman named Gallagher gets sick with violent, devastating hiccups in mid-Indian ocean, dies-supposedly because his fat Malay mistress had uttered a curse upon him. This incident so profoundly moves one Mrs. Hamlyn (contemplating divorce) that she sits down, writes her husband: "Think kindly of me and be happy, happy, happy." The best part of this story...
...Drohan, a noted soccer player and all-around athlete, will coach the Freshmen this year. Coach Drohan has had 25 years' experience in Europe and America as a soccer player, and has coached teams in Singapore and Penang in the Malay States as an agent of the British government. He has studied physical education for the last few years and will stress conditioning in the early part of the season...