Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried out. Instead Mr. Gandhi was moved to the largest room in Yerovda Prison and it was thrown open to delegations and personages of all sorts who ceaselessly moved in & out, arguing or pleading with the Great Soul who remained cheerful but unmoved, inflexible in his purpose: To eat no food until His Majesty's Government reached an agreement with Hindus of all castes terminating the decree of the Raj that the higher castes should constitute an electorate separate from the Untouchables in seven of the nine provinces...
...Tinko [Mrs. Pawley] is wonderfully brave and cheery, but she can't stand this sort of thing forever. We've done nothing but eat and sleep for a week. We are filthy and bored stiff, but we're both fit and well treated...
Nevertheless, the inability of the upperclassman to eat, and pay for his own meal, in another House than his own will be as inconvenient during the coming year as it has been in the past. The argument that relaxing the ban would cause a severe strain on the dining rooms of some of the House to the neglect of others is beside the point, since, as the CRIMSON pointed out last year, it would be quite possible to limit the number of meals which a guest could sign for. The increase in the cost of bookkeeping would be so slight...
Upperclassmen in the College will recall the agitation last year for a change in the regulation by which a member of one House cannot eat in another House except at the expense of the student with whom he is dining. The manifest inconvenience of this arrangement was discussed editorially in the CRIMSON, and led finally to the circulation of a petition among the House Committees, to discern the exact opinion of House members, and facilitate a change. Efforts to secure that change were unavailing then, but it was hoped that the authorities would act before College reopened...
Commented Friend Irwin: "Gandhi is now speaking in a language the Indian people understand. If I were to get out in the hallway of the government buildings at New Delhi, squat on the floor and refuse to eat a bite until the Indian civil disobedience movement came to terms, the trouble would be over in a few days. Of course, before those few days could elapse my Liberal, Conservative and Labor colleagues in London would send for me to come home and would have a padded cell waiting for me on my arrival...