Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phumiphon was desolated. Wandering about the palace grounds, he saw a guard turn a group of peasants away from Ananda's funeral urn (in which his remains were folded into the traditional fetal position), because the peasants were not dressed in proper mourning. Brusquely Phumiphon ordered the gates opened to them. Two months after Ananda's death, Phumiphon left "to resume his studies" in Switzerland. Two million tearful Siamese lined his road to the airport, casting jasmine flowers under the wheels of his car. Ananda's funeral was postponed four years until Phumiphon got back...
When the Vatican wants a report on Catholic affairs in the U.S. South, Stephen is sent down for a look and is horsewhipped by Klansmen. When Al Smith gets bogged down in religious bigotry in 1928, it is Stephen who dashes to New York to instruct Al in the proper Catholic answer...
...imported Champville marble is now in New York, in one piece approximately six by six by 12 feet. It will be brought to Boston to be cut into slabs the proper size and then carvers will start work in the studio of the John Evans Company...
...successfully. It has wit as well as slapstick, there are always love scenes and plenty of dancing, and everybody knows the music. But the D'Oyly Carte Company, which has set the standards for G & S stage productions since the beginning of time, has not managed to create the proper flavor in its film version of "The Mikado...
...crave. Guided by their photoelectric eyes, they creep toward a lamp or the fireplace. When they hit an obstacle they stop, growl faintly, back away and try again at a slightly different angle. Their wanderings often take them all over the house. When they reach a light of the proper intensity, they bask under it blissfully in photoelectric euphoria...