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...with a Moslem boy who quarreled with her, cut off her nose. In court Widow Khurshaid said she had cut off her own nose. Afterward she gave the boy about 4,000 rupees, offered to marry him. When he refused her, she got him drunk, tied him to his cot, cut off his nose. In court, she pleaded guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor...
...solved the electoral issue "in a moment of reflection" and that he vished to see him. The meeting took place last week and Untouchable Dr. Ambdekar as well as high-caste Hindu leaders were apparently moved beyond endurance by the piteous sight of the Mahatma quivering on a cot in the prison yard beneath the shade of a mango tree. One & all they rushed away to patch up with the Raj some sort of settlement to which the Mahatma would agree...
Before going home, Governor Murray retired to a room in a bank where his favorite brand of mattress (a "Beauty Rest") was put on a cot for him. He lay down, drank two cups of steaming coffee and hot water, held an informal reception for old timers who had known him before he ran away from home...
...Queen (Marjorie Stair), got up early, piled into dozens of trucks padded with hay, drove through the streets of New Orleans in the wake of the parade of Rex, King of Carnival (Coco-Colaman A. B. Freeman). Crowds packed from building line to car tracks threw confetti, cot ton balls, grabbed at shoes dangling over the sides of the trucks. Meanwhile, up from the river came another parade, headed by Joseph O. Misshore, Negro embalmer, in a beaded leather suit, wearing the huge feather headdress of the Zulus, followed by a court of the Dukes of Africa. King Zulu...
Last week, his leg swollen and gangrenous, Lionman Beatty tossed on a hospital cot, fighting for his life. Alone in a cage sulked his friend Nero...