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...blessed in India by the Hindu Primate, then carried by a Pundit to the Chateau Holkar on the outskirts of Paris, where it was broken and the virgin milk allowed to splash upon the naked girl-babe, who was christened Princess Sharada Raje Holkar, amid pious shouts of "Om! Shantih! Shantih"!! Shantih!!! "Oh! Peace! Peace!! Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Poor Nancy! | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...Sings, the On Leongs. Many others exist;?the Hong Tuck Tong, made up of cigar makers; the Gum Longs, of fishermen on the Sacremento river; the Gin Sin Sear, founded by Little Pete, famed Chinese badman; the Bo Sin Sear, its rival; the Suey Sings, the Juke Lums, Om Yicks, Bing Kongs. The war of 1905 brought in twelve tongs on one side, nine on the other. Remembering this, police commissioners in all cities stationed double patrols, last week, in their Chinatowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tong | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...OM. THE SECRET OF AHBOR VALLEY - Talbot Mundy - Bobbs Merrill ($2.00). Ommony-who knew as much about India as any white man could know-sought his sister and her husband in the Ahbor Valley, whence no man ever returned. He sought also the secret of the broken bit of green jade and of the wise old Ringding Gelong Lama, who had an Oxford degree and was found to be importing European little girls into the Ahbor Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ringding Gelong Lama | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

...signals given according to State House Time will stop at Greenwich midnight, Saturday, November 17, 1883; that is, at about 7h. 16 P. M., by the local time. The signals according to "Eastern time" will begin at Greenwich noon on Sunday, November 18; that is, at 7h Om A. M., by the new standard. The minute immediately preceding 7h A. M. will be entirely occupied by a long rattle of about 36 seconds and a pause of about 24 seconds. This will also occur during the minutes immediately preceding the hours 8, 9, 10, and 11, A. M. The first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY. | 11/17/1883 | See Source »

...doth the young man of the class that is called Sof om oar array himself in purple and fine linen, and, with a face shining as the sun, save where it is marred by a hurried shave, he hasteneth to the house of music and the dance, and sayeth, "Go to; now will I enjoy myself, eat, drink, and be a masher;" and lo, as he entereth the chamber of the dance, he perceiveth even afar off a maiden of the tribes that dwell beyond the Hudson, - yea, even on the shores of the great seas have they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GO AND DO THOU NOT LIKEWISE. | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

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