Word: asceticism
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Mr. Hampden in the title role is a most saintly idealist. He plays his part thoroughly in keeping with the Browning tradition of ever marching breast foreward. He preserved the outward calm of a man who was assured of his ideals, and at the same time he avoided becoming a...
"I still have unquenchable faith in Civil Disobedience," wrote spindle-shanked Mahatma Gandhi, loinclothed, ascetic patron saint of Indian Independence, a month ago. "But if India should have to go through the agonies of civil war or foreign invasion, be sure these are no new things in the history of...
The judge, grim-lipped Sir Horace Edmund Avory, pale and ascetic under his huge wig, was unimpressed. Addressing all four defendants he gazed fixedly at Clarence Hatry, the man who once owned the largest yacht and some of the fastest horses in Britain, whose Mayfair house contained not only a...
As the Congress adjourned the Executive Committee in its character of Government immediately called upon the 145 members of the Central Indian Legislative Assembly to resign. At once 23 did resign. The Government then fixed Jan. 26 as the date for a "nationwide demonstration." Great was the triumph of India...
With their ultimatum in effect rejected, the Indian National Congress was at zero hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had...