Word: teak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...threat that "this will not be an other bloodless revolution." Bahol's men rushed north into Donmuang, killing 500 rebels, wounding 1,000. When they captured the airdrome they found it stripped, the planes flown, the water supply poisoned. They chased Prince Bavaradej north into the teak forests. Two days later, Bahol's men captured Prince Sithiporn. They ferreted out two of his lieutenants in a Bangkok temple. A rumor spread that Prince Bavaradej had hopped into a plane and abandoned his troops. But his Royal Highness sent back word that, "My withdrawal is only temporary." The delicacy...
...Shamrock V is handsome. Hers is a gull-shaped green body, striped with a white boot-top at the waterline, the light swell amidships giving a look of speed. Mahogany over a steel frame, with keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze. Her hull measurements are within a fraction of an inch the same as Enterprise's; she carries 16 square feet less sail and has a little more displacement. She can ride an English chop on a reach and pull before the wind; what...
...between coat and kilt. Says he: "I could not fail to notice how much character it gives a woman's face to display her navel." From time to time in his travels Maugham met an outlandish character, was often made confidant of an outlandish story. In the teak forests of Siam he met a Frenchman, a gross fellow, who boasted of his recent prowess in venery, then seeing a copy of Verlaine's poems Maugham was carrying, seized it and read a favorite. "And as he read his voice broke and tears came into his eyes...