Word: prajadhipok
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...slumbrous, easy-going Siam the gentle comedy of deposing King Prajadhipok as Absolute Monarch and reinstating King Prajadhipok as Constitutional Monarch was wafted to its close last week...
...progressive little man, His Majesty had eagerly favored the change from the first. It permitted dismissal of his Supreme Council of State composed exclusively of Princes-all relatives of King Prajadhipok. Delighted to get rid of his relatives, some of them big men who have tried to boss and bully him, the bantamweight King ushered happily into office a Cabinet of Ministers in which there is not a single Prince...
Without a constitution-which Siam has never had-King Prajadhipok could not of course become a Constitutional Monarch. In a quiet Siamese way it was announced last week that a constitution had been adopted and that "under certain circumstances the Senate has power to override the King...
When Charlotte Corday stormed into Jean Paul Marat's bathroom in 1793, he was in his high, churnlike tub and she stabbed him to the heart. When Siamese soldiers and sailors stormed last week into King Prajadhipok's Bangkok bathroom (see p. 18), made by Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., the big U. S. bathtub was empty...
Seriously as well as cynically, some Art critics have called plumbing the only immortal U. S. art-form, the country's sole contribution to world culture. U. S. plumbing annually reaches new esthetic and utilitarian highs. Last week King Prajadhipok missed new plumbing highs in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. A magenta watercloset built all in one piece of porcelain stood alone on a green throne, simpler than Prajadhipok's. A seven-foot bathtub surnamed the Bourbon Luxury was flooded with soft lighting, framed in banks of peonies, on a marble stage. The National Association of Master...