Word: goats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than that pious midget the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He had amplified his customary loin cloth with a scarf thrown over his shoulders, and a cheap watch dangled from his waist. Perspiring porters rushed ashore with St. Gandhi's clattering collection of stew pans, his mattress, his cans of goat's milk and his suitcase. But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma...
...last week aboard 5. S. Rajpntana. Spurning the cabin which the Government had put aside for his use. he slept under a thin sheet on a hard wooden bench in the stern. The ship's cat. a huge black torn, developed a taste for the Mahatma's goat's milk and purred peaceably beside...
...Goat...
...Kinston, N. C., William Alston's goat in seven days ate the following: an automobile seat, a hollyhock row. a pair of pyjamas, two days' mail, 17 hens' nests, a prayer book, three rows of assorted flowers. On the eighth day William Alston slew his goat, gave it to a Negro family. The family ate the goat...
...Gandhi then said goodbye to his wife and son, boarded the S. S. Rajputana with his English disciple. Miss Madeline Slade (Srimati Mira Bai).* His two goats were left behind, but he had provided himself with 30 quarts of pasteurized goat's milk and enough dried fruit to live on until he reaches London. In his meagre luggage there was also a copy of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience. Discovery of this fact set observers to wondering if the Mahatma had borrowed his catchword and chief weapon from the New England sage...