Word: thais
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grade A, and coughing Katinka soon confessed to 25 specific kidnappings and sales involving girls aged between 7 and 9. Chief factor in the slaver's long-successful activities, police said, was her system of breaking the kidnapped children's morale and cowing them so thoroughly thai after being "sold" few of the "slaves" dared to run away. "I kept the children locked up in lonely houses and 'trained' them in my own way to be good workers," confessed tuberculous Katinka Barbalate. "Yes, I tortured them...
...Lewis tried to put the best face he could on the contract with an optimistic declaration thai: "it preserves the current wage structure." But he devoted most of his statement to his old line of buttering up Steelman Taylor. Said Laborman Lewis: "The fact that our minds were able to meet on questions of principle and policy is a tribute to Mr. Taylor not only as a leader of industry but as an American devoted to the furtherance of ration,: relationships and national stability...
...Marina Torlonia, gowned in gold sequins, before whom paraded more socialites representing Travel, Art, and assorted angels with gilded wings. "Happiness" was represented by the Court of Venus. The Goddess of Love was impersonated by Leonora Corona, onetime singer at the Metropolitan Opera. A Texas girl whose costume as Thai's when she appeared at the Cincinnati Zoo Opera three years ago shocked her audience (TIME, July 31, 1933), Miss Corona showed herself at the Waldorf in a shining little shift and neat metallic girdle, while before her paraded still more socialites as the great love-women of history...
...moment is not far off when we must act not only in the interest of national finances, but also in thai of the Republican regime. . . . Mob movements threaten to violate the domiciles of the people's representatives. ... If the means now at our disposal are insufficient I will ask for others from...
Most fun was had in the Purple Forbidden City by Annam's late Emperor Thanh-Thai. Was there any rule of etiquet. demanded this ingenious monarch, which barred him from setting up a market in the Palace courtyard, with eunuchs to sell meat & vegetables, the Empress & concubines as buyers and His Majesty as the fishmonger? Abashed, the Keeper of the Book of Rites replied that His Majesty might have a market. Next day and every day thereafter the courtyard hummed with haggling, especially furious around His Majesty's fish booth...