Word: charioteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July 10,000 Hindus marched through the streets of Ahmedabad pulling a chariot on which stood six youths lustily cudgeling a grotesque image labeled DEMON LIQUOR. At the city's boundary 62-year-old Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of Mahatma M. K. Gandhi's trusted lieutenants and legislative coordinator for the Indian National Congress Party, stepped forward to set fire to Demon Liquor. Thus did the prohibition crusade, which Sardar Patel called the "first and right step toward Swaraj (Indian independence)," come to Ahmedabad, "Manchester of India...
With Generalissimo Francisco Franco never more certain of ultimate victory, England and France made ungainly haste to hitch a free ride on his chariot...
Trumpets tore the night air. Into New Orleans' City Park Stadium, where 65,000 Roman Catholics knelt, moved a ''Eucharistic chariot"-a large float, draped in burgundy and gold fabrics, bearing the kneeling figure of George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, and for this occasion a papal legate in a gold mitre and cloth of gold cope. Be fore him stood a tall ostensorium worth $35,000, an altar vessel made of gold objects, diamonds and other jewels donated last winter by thousands of Louisiana Catholics...
SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT (Bing Crosby; Decca). With the Paul Taylor Choristers, Mr. Crosby looks over "Jerdon." Heady vocalizing, unequaled since his Swanee River...
...Modern Caesar" was the title conferred on Adolf Hitler last week by the world press, which always ennobles with a cliche. This Caesar's chariot of triumph was his usual big black Mercedes-Benz, and as usual he rode beside his chauffeur, entering his native Austria amid a two-mile long procession of German Army & Storm Troops, with six tanks leading the way, and German bombers blacking...