Word: thais
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris and he almost had a chance to stay on. The August Messenger from the Regent of Annam who set out last spring to recall His Majesty traveled by the brand new French luxury liner Georges Phillipar. When she burned up and sank at sea last May, August Messenger Thai Van Toan barely escaped with his life. Last week he had the satisfaction of seeing Emperor Bao Dai enthroned in the Palace of Supreme Peace. For hours & hours & hours His Majesty had to sit motionless, extending his white jade scepter while brigades of mandarins bowed in batches. According to Imperial...
...think that Dr. Dickey's $5,000 fee for the trip across the Andes and down the Amazon is excessive: rather it is trading upon the glamour of the tropics for the uninitiated. I'll guarantee the same trip and conditions for less than half of thai: I happen to live right on the trail...
...Land of the Free." Siamese call their country Muang Thai ("Land of the Free") and are in fact free to drink, to take plural wives...
...contributors include Colyumist Adams' good friends Ring Lardner, John Held Jr., Dorothy Parker, Sigmund Spaeth, Groucho Marx, Samuel Hoffenstein, Arthur Guiterman, Newman Levy. Author-Lawyer Levy ("Flaccus") wrote in 1923 what has since become the Conning Tower's "most requested" poem for reprinting, a rollicking narrative called "Thai's." First stanza: One time, in Alexandria, in wicked Alexandria, Where nights were wild with revelry and life was but a game, There lived, so the report is, an adventuress and courtesan, The pride of Alexandria, and Thais was her name. . . . Some of the best contributions are anonymous...
...family disapproved of Gilbert from the beginning and tried to make him take his old job teaching at their boys' school. They thought it was a shame Elizabeth had to work, but admired her success, despised his failure. Then one of his novels somehow caught on. Thai nearly finished the occasionally-happy married life of Gilbert & Elizabeth. Success brought female admirers, one of whom went to Gilbert's head, left nothing much there, so far as Elizabeth could...