Crossword-Solution: MANDALAY 8 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The smaller girl created a diversion by beginning to recite “On the Road to Mandalay.” She only knew the first line, but she put her limited knowledge to the fullest possible use.

Any suspicion against him, let alone such a story against him, would knock us endways from Malta to Mandalay.

And the florists! There were orchids that (though he only half knew it, and that all inarticulately) whispered to him of jungles where, in the hot hush, he saw the slumbering python and—“What was it in that poem, that, Mandalay, thing? _was_ it about jungles? Anyway: “‘Them garlicky smells, And the sunshine and the palms and the bells.’” He had to hurry back to the office.

Whinney sang a very dreary arrangement of "Mandalay"--his one parlor trick; Swank did an imitation of Elsie Janis's imitation of Ethel Barrymore and I sang "The Wreck of the Julie Plante," an amusing ballad describing the loss by drowning of an entire ship's company.

Among such contemplated arrangements were the dispatch of a mission from Burmah to China, and of a return one from China; the appointment of the Head Priest of Mandalay as the person to send the mission, thus making it a purely native matter, outside the participation of the British government; and the concession of material advantages on the Irrawaddy and in the Shan country, as the equivalent for the surrender of the tribute.