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Minuscule King Prajadhipok in a white dress uniform, the sunlight gleaming from his new spectacles, stood on the bridge, beside pretty little Queen Rambai Barni. Glittering with decorations, a delegation of relations and officials were waiting under a red-&-green lacquer pagoda. Not a sound came from the crowds on the shore until family greetings were over...
...other hand, the pagoda on Bow Street is very handy to the Cambridge Gas and Electric Light Company (Plympton Street elevation) and to the First National Bank of Adams House. But the Vagabond dislikes the sound of riveters. He tossed a coin. When it rolled down the sewer he took the first train for the New Hampshire hills and spent the afternoon wondering if telegraphically transmitted copy would be full of errors. It seems...
...something about carpenters and plasterers, or was it about a memorial that the real argument had been? Anyway, it seemed that the workmen had walked out one morning. It was perfectly familiar down on Plympton street, too having heaps of saud, and workmen blocking traffic. Cagey system building the pagoda in between Russell and Westmorly, then tearing down Russell, cutting a big hole in the pagoda right off, so as to connect things...
When the solid gold top of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon was shaken down by an earthquake (TIME, May 19, 1930), Thomas Cook & Sons may well have mourned. But last week pious Burmese crowned their wonder of the world again with gold. The completed job cost $300,000, was rushed through one year and three weeks after the quake. For good measure and added travelers' delight, diamonds were set into 2,500-year-old Shwe Dagon's new crown...
...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 with the motor disguised as a gold pagoda...