Word: siam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...terrible crime wave is now raging in Siam," cabled TIME'S Bangkok correspondent last week. "It is no wonder that King Ananda is taking a special interest...
...There are only five 1942 Nashes in Siam," continued the cable, so the search should have been easy. Yet a hunt led by Siam's Supreme Police Chief himself and a proffered reward of 1,000 ticals (approx. $67) failed to turn up a trace of the missing car, or the recently discharged royal chauffeur who disappeared at the same time...
...three days, Siam's police were "very ashamed that no arrests had been made" but "most confident the robbers will be caught." Siam's King was not so sure. While the search went on, somebody had crept into the royal bedchamber and copped his favorite 7.65-mm. Mauser pistol...
...Cabinet meeting at noon] it was now the opinion of everyone that if this [Japanese] expedition was allowed to get around the southern point of Indo-China and to go off and land in the Gulf of Siam . . . it would be a terrific blow at all of the three Powers, Britain at Singapore, The Netherlands, and ourselves in the Philippines...
...matriculated at St. Andrews University in 1915. He won high favor with Downing Street circles in 1932 when he saved Fellow Scotsman Ramsay MacDonald from blindness, with two delicate operations on his glaucoma-affected eyes. In 1934, he performed the operation which staved off blindness for the King of Siam...