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...contributed to nurse training-schools in the United States, Brazil, France, Poland, Jugoslavia, China, Japan and Siam...
...Champions arose to declare that feminine presences had kept the young men mannerly and happy. Co-ed Mary Eikel, for example, had been an able dancing partner for Student Jack Eakin and these two had demonstrated the Charleston to royalty in Siam and Spain. Mrs. Agnes Morrow Scandrett (sister of Dwight W. Morrow, Morgan partner) had been sympathetic and steadying. Mrs. Scandrett thought globe-trotting co-education was "most wholesome...
That students of comparative government saw absolute monarchy operating in Siam, paternalism in the Arabian desert, Fascism in Italy (where Mussolini greeted them wearing steel mail under his frock coat...
...photographs elephants from under their feet, "shoots" tigers almost in their jaws, films a family of bears at play, leopards on the hunt, snakes in death struggles, monkeys a clowning, elephants nudging a village into oblivion. Dramatically, it is an account of the family of one Kru, of Siam, how he preserves his life and propagates his kind in the face of hostile nature. When wild beasts take to marauding, he takes to hunting. Both his cunning and their savagery are depicted with such clarity, plausibility and genuineness that those fortunate enough to be in the audience can only marvel...
When famed Manhattan lawyer Samuel Untermyer reached Bangkok, Siam, recently, on the world cruise of the S. S. Belgenland he was greeted with no lilting stanzas, but rather by an imperial "command" to appear at the Siamese Court and be received in audience by perky little King Pracha Tipok (TIME, March 8, 1926) and his placid, portly Queen...