Word: orientale
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The only monarch absolute both in theory and in fact is the King of Siam. Last week this potent small man (98 Ib.) was en route to clasp hands in Washington with President Hoover. When he does so the King of Siam will be the first Oriental ever to enter...
Royal Progress. Steaming away last month from sunny Bangkok, King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai (115 Ib.) were imperially feted fortnight ago in Japan, the only other independent oriental monarchy.
"Old Man" Scripps, like "Old Joe" Pulitzer used to wear a beard. "Bob" Scripps has been growing one since October. From a dubious trowel beard it has evolved into a handsome spade affair, Messianic full face and like Italos Balbo's in profile. Partner Howard's visage remains...
Farther down the hall, guarded from the main corridor by two secretarial offices, is a flaming lacquer-red door. When this door is thrown open, the scene is like the bursting of a rocket. Dazzling golds, lacquer reds and blacks provide a setting for a wealth of Chinese ornament-scrolls...
In a small anteroom, papered in black, are a draped couch, and more oriental curios-among them an opium pipe, trophy of a police raid in Pittsburgh. Adjoining the anteroom is a spacious gold-walled lavatory, the plumbing fixtures of black porcelain. In a corner stands a lacquer red refrigerator...