Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prominent villagers in the hamlet of Balaton-fured, Hungary, puzzled last week over an intense, anxious cablegram signed by Poet-Sage Sir Rabindranath Tagore of Santiniketan, Bengal, India. When they had made out what was wanted the villagers went out and examined a sapling. "It is shedding its leaves," they cabled back to Tagore, "but its sap is healthy and its life seems assured." Four years ago the sapling was planted as a "Hope Tree" by the Sage. He is supposed to believe that the planter of such a tree will live for at least five years after the planting...
...LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER? F. Yeats-Brown?Viking...
...idea is that this Bengal lancer has already had, if not nine lives like a cat, at any rate more than one. But Onetime Lancer Yeats-Brown would probably admit he was unusual. Not every fresh-cheeked British boy from Sandhurst turns into a No. 1 poloist and pig-sticker, nor discovers a thirst for the mysteries of Hindu Yoga...
...Lives of A Bengal Lancer is the November choice of the Book-of-the- Month Club...
Edward John Thompson is no name to place beside those of the great War propagandists. He is a poet, novelist, War veteran (Military Cross, mentioned in despatches), lecturer in Bengali at Oxford. He has written a history of India. He has served as an "educational missionary" at Bankura College, Bengal. He has written many a page expressing sympathy with the aspirations of Indian "Moderates." Doubtless well qualified to write about India, his character as a propagandist is, however, scarcely up to the standard of the great London Times. Last week's pamphlet exhibits an ignorance...