Word: orientales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Siamese court gossips buzzed excitedly a little known tale. When Dr. Wheeler sat down two years ago to bill His Majesty he could not decide what fee to ask. An Oriental potentate must be charged neither too little nor too much. Finally Dr. Wheeler had an idea, took...
Bernard Marcus, convicted president of Bank of United States (whose executive vice president, Saul Singer, last fortnight had a uniformed chauffeur deliver an oriental rug for his cell at Sing Sing) applied for transfer from Sing Sing to New York State's new wall-less, bar-less prison at...
¶A liveried chauffeur in a limousine drove to Sing Sing prison and delivered a small oriental rug which was spread on the floor of a cell occupied by Saul Singer, executive vice president of the late Bank of United States (biggest U. S. bank ever to fail), serving three...
In 1928 Harper Sibley, after a big-game hunting trip in Africa, joined Mrs. Sibley for the International Missionary Conference in Jerusalem, to which both were Episcopal delegates. In 1931 they traveled in India, Burma, China and Japan as Episcopal members of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, Mr...
Died. Thomas James O'Brien, 90, lawyer, diplomat, onetime (1907-11) Ambassador to Japan, onetime (1911-13) Ambassador to Italy; after long illness; in Grand Rapids, Mich. He it was who shaped the gentlemen's agreement between the U. S. and Japan preventing the influx of Oriental labor...