Word: asceticism
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Last week the 458 women were brought to trial on an old tennis court. The judge sat under a shade tree and the ascetic defendants stood in the sun, dressed in chaste white robes. Chief Shembe gave his followers a good character. "We never have fights," he said, "not even...
One more famous talent driven to the U. S. by warmaking abroad, Antonin Raymond is a bony, thin-lipped man of 50, with sunken cheeks and an ascetic affability. Born in Prague, he was once a U. S. assistant military attache in Switzerland, an engineer-architect with the late Cass...
Biggest Congress personality is 69-year-old Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Politically astute as well as religiously ascetic. Saint Gandhi has long been a virtual Congress dictator, his word being law and his selection of party officials final.
This concern is no political pose with Frank Murphy. Ascetic, perfectionist, he really believes that, instead of becoming a Roman Catholic priest he became a social priest, ordained by his late mother, who taught him to honor Jews and Negroes as highly as other men. In his first mayoral campaign...
The man most responsible for this world tragedy is a moody, brooding, unprepossessing, 49-year-old Austrian-born ascetic with a Charlie Chaplin mustache. The son of an Austrian petty customs official, Adolf Hitler was raised as a spoiled child by a doting mother. Consistently failing to pass even the...