Word: svasti
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...palace King Prajad-hipok stopped at the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (where he had served his novitiate as a monk before his coronation) to worship his six royal ancestors while yellow-robed priests spun prayer wheels. From the palace jovial Prince Svasti, the King's father-in-law (who smokes fat cigarets) issued a statement...
...Spying out good night life for his majestic son-in-law, gay old Prince Svasti last week bewitched the manager and bartender of Manhattan's new, swank Terrace Club by letting them smoke one of his fat, perfumed special cigarets whose wrappings are lotus leaves...
...Prince Svasti, gracious, Westernized father of Queen Rambai Barni of Siam, went to a performance of The Green Pastures in Manhattan. Entering the theatre he spied a poor man and his wife who held a small baby in her arms. Prince Svasti stopped to admire the child, offered the man a roll of money. At first the man refused. Then he broke down, told the Prince that he had three more children, that he was jobless, about to be evicted from his home. When a crowd gathered, Prince Svasti took up a collection, persuaded the indigent pair to accept...
...King & Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Svasti and other members of the Court, have arrived at "Ophir Hall" in Purchase, N. Y., 25 mi. north of great New York City...
During the stop at Portal, Her Majesty was abed with a cold, as were most of the 15 other Siamese in the Royal Party. But the Queen's father, genial Prince Svasti, bubbled with robust health and plans. After escorting Their Majesties to the estate they are occupying at Purchase, New York (TIME, April 20), after the reception at Washington, and after a cataract has been removed from His Majesty's left eye, "I personally plan," declared Prince Svasti, "to visit Hollywood...