Word: baber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neutrality" that would not hamper the British in fighting the Japanese. He boasted that if his followers joined Gandhi's pacifist program, the British would have 500 times more trouble "because we have 500 times more guts than the Hindus." He recalled past glories of the Mogul Emperor Baber ("The Tiger") and other Moslem warriors: "The Moslems have been slaves for only 200 years but the Hindus have been slaves for a thousand...
Darius of Persia first came into the valley of Kabul in the 6th Century B.C. After him came Alexander of Macedonia, Antiochus III of Syria, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and Baber. Centuries later came the British; then the Russians; finally the Germans and Japanese. Last week, clutching his brief case in a car that pitched like a camel over the boulder-strewn Khyber Pass, came the American. He was balding, professorial Cornelius van Henert Engert, U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan...
...auditorium for three nights. Merchants buy plenty of space in the program, and the production usually nets the Catholic Charities $5,000. When the Denver opera season approaches, Monsignor Bosetti rolls up his sleeves, picks a cast strictly on merit; it turns out to be 75% non-Catholic. Ray Baber, leading baritone, is the son of a Protestant minister. Since amateur voices may get out of kilter, two or three singers alternate in principal roles. Of the three chosen for last week's Carmen one was Jewish: Eleanor Kahn, who has sung with the San Francisco Opera. Monsignor Bosetti...