Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American films as indicative of social life. It is a fact that, in almost savage countries, American films which are supposed to represent American social life are used in the most evil way by Bolsheviks and other propagandists. I found this true even in India, where I have heard it said in the bazaars: 'Is this the way the sahibs live when they are at home...
England. This England, of which he had heard so much, was certainly a queer place. All the buildings were square and pointed and dirty. All the people were sahibs and mem-sahibs, but somehow quite different from those in far-off India. None of them wore those spotless white clothes which they wore in the land of Ind. More strange, many seemed very poor, and none of them seemed to have any servants following them. The men that he mixed with at the university and at the Inns of Court eyed him strangely. When he spoke to them, which...
...numerous relatives, to whom the good Hindu, following religious precept, could not refuse assistance while he had wealth to give. Young Das immediately assumed his father's obligations, worked hard at the legal profession, eventually amassed a considerable fortune. And when the voice of the Mahatma, Gandhi, was heard calling upon the masses to awake, he answered, and gradually dissipated his fortune...
...heard him? Only a few thousands out of India's few hundred millions. Only in Bengal, the Punjab and the Bombay Presidency did the numbers amount to anything; and even at that the "teeming millions," of which Mr. Das was so fond of speaking, were untouched, hopelessly disinterested in politics...
...power among the villages. It was a task the very nature of which must take generations to accomplish. But he had lived in an epoch when the East was striving in an economic sense to join with the West on equal terms. Vaguely, dimly, confusedly, the masses who had heard of Swaraj understood what the passing of the great leader signified. And if they were equally bewildered at the presence of numerous sahibs at the funeral, centuries of submission to authority had taught them to admire its quality...