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...they were women, he had died." In A Passage To India, Cyril Fielding, who as a bachelor bravely opposed Anglo-Indian snobbism and narrowness, becomes snobbish and narrow himself when he marries and becomes an official. Dr. Aziz changes from the sensitive, enlightened Indian to an impudent, cocksure babu...
Calypsos (Wilmoth Houdini; Decca). Three-disc album of Trinidad's unique babu-pa-doop. Note Roosevelt Opens World's Fair...
...gogues themselves Mr. Mencken calls "bureaucrats, irresponsible and unintelligent quacks . . . enemies of all genuine intellectual enterprise . . . silly babus. . . . The babu can give his pupils only what is in his own head, and that is surely not much...
...accompaniment of shrill Babu squeals from Hindu lawyers and muffled Moslem mutterings, both Indian round table conferences have foundered on the same rock: the problem of proportional Hindu and Moslem representation in Indian provincial legislatures. Since May 14, 218 people have been killed, more than 2,500 seriously injured in riots over this point...
...telephone? The realistic attitude of typical Rumanians is merely this: No one disputes the legitimacy of King Carol, Prince Nicholas or their sisters, the former Queen Elisabeth of Greece and the present Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. If, after giving King Ferdinand these four children, Her Majesty then gave Prince Babu Stirbey her last and youngest child. Princess Ileana, is that anyone's business but her own? In Rumania it is not. In Rumania the sanctity of the orthodox patriarch of the National Church, His Holiness Miron Cristea, is not held to be impaired by his national reputation as a onetime...