Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gandhi's Watch Pocket...
...Abruptly St. Gandhi jerked out his dollar watch, announced that it was 7 p.m.-time to pray...
...Gandhi watch is jerked from a fold of the Mahatma's first shawl (the one next his skin) to which he secures his large ("dollar") watch by a large ("baby's") safety pin. In England St. Gandhi wears a second and often a third shawl. The three cover him tentwise when he sits crosslegged, showing only his big toes, small hands and birdlike poll topped with stiff black & white hairs clipped to a length...
Before he left Bombay for London (TIME, Aug. 24), St. Gandhi protested loud and long that he expected nothing whatever to come of the Indian Round Table Conference. Last week while the conference, hopelessly hung up on the problem of Hindu-Moslem representation, still struggled on, he quietly booked passage to sail back to India the middle of November...
...Gandhi, 4 ft. 8 in., 76 lb., is shorter and lighter than a jockey or the coxswain of a crew...