Word: pham
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Trusted Servant. Among the servants in the palace was a dark, hollow-cheeked 18-year-old, Pham Ngoc Lan, whom Commissioner de Raymond affectionately nicknamed le petit Tho (Little Tho). He had come into the Commissioner's service last August. Unaccountably, he had not been given the usual security check, but his shy manner and rare smile had won the confidence of the household. He was even allowed to tidy up the fussy Commissioner's air-conditioned bedroom. Last month le petit Tho took a day off, rode a bus 36 miles to Banam, where...
...Booey Choo) and Phat Diem (pronounced Fat Zee-em). In a predominately Buddhist country and against the rising tide of Viet Minh Communism, they have established their predominately separate existence as independent Roman Catholic theocracies ruled by Monsignor Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem, and his protege Monsignor Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop...
Chubby, cheerful Bishop Pham Ngoc Chi celebrated the occasion by smoking his first cigarette in 23 years. At lunch, an excited waiter spilled gravy all over Bishop Le Huu Tu's white fleece cape and cream-colored soutane. After lunch, Bishop Le Huu Tu set out for his own see of Phat Diem aboard one of the principality's boats, flying the yellow & white papal standard, and manned by a crew of young huskies armed with new Tommy guns and wearing on their shoulders Le Huu Tu's own crest, a Chinese dragon coiled around a trumpet...