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...land. His bitterest political opponents ungrudgingly pay homage to his high ethi- cal and spiritual qualities. "Ghandism a striking corpso"--strange indeed! Those who have even a Faint idea of what Indian public life was like before Ghandi appeared on the scene would rapidly see the shallowness of this epithet. Then the masses accepted their wretched fate in fatalistic apathy. Ghandi has infused into this "corpse" a new life, a now hope. It no longer "stinks," it is vibrant with a fresh vigor. Tagore ascribes the present now life in India largely to the dynamic influence of Ghandi...
...Professor Chase to the presidency, nor has there been since, any division of the faculty along sectional lines. There has never been an organized group of the faculty known as the "Damyankees." TIME is here adding another legend to the already voluminous apocrypha of Chapel Hill. Of course the epithet "Damyankee" is occasionally applied with facetious intent to one or another of the faculty, both by Northerners and by Southerners, but the idea of forming an organization along these lines excites mirth...
...madness") of the great Polish soldier-statesman whom only Poles are temperamentally equipped to obey and understand. Marshal Josef Pilsudski. A dictator with a small "d," he refuses to be President, detests the Premiership, publicly calls the Polish Parliament a prostitute when he can think of no fouler epithet and rules Poland through a Cabinet clique called "the Pilsudski Colonels...
...club, a burlesque show, a circus, a medicine show. With one savage sweep, hard-boiled Messrs. Fowler & Hecht have cleaned up the list by setting their play in a sideshow, musicomedy rehearsal hall and flea circus. What happens: A barker (Paul Kelly), who considers all women "magoos" (unflattering sideshow epithet), finally falls in love with a carnival queen (Claire Carlton). When ambition leads her to throw in her lot with a theatrical "angel," Actor Kelly takes to drink. When she turns out to be a dramatic failure, she takes to prostitution. In the end love conquers...
...family name was Lawrence; to Arab warriors he was Aurans, Emir Dinamit, ''the World's Imp"; newspaper Warwicks dubbed him "the uncrowned King of Arabia"; some of his immediate superiors in the British Army called him every epithet in the calendar; now he answers only to his legally changed name of "Shaw." An archeologist of the first rank, he is now a mechanic and "the associate of menials"; once a colonel, he is now, by choice, a private; with a reputation that could still be cashed in for much fine gold, he is content with his army pittance of 60?...