Word: indians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poets are apt to develop a weakness for epigrams. Sometimes they achieve their most beautiful thoughts in these short, effortless three or four lines. Thus Landor like, Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet and mystic, in his sixty-seventh year has compiled such a collection which he calls FIREFLIES (Macmillan Co., New York, 1928, $2.50). On the flyleaf is Tagore's explanatory inscription, "Fireflies had their origin in China and Japan where thoughts were very often claimed from me in my handwriting of fans and pieces of silk...
...Indian fantasy" Dance Selections Gold Coast Orchestra arr by C. F. Henderson...
Among the gifts of Dr. Denman W. Ross '75 are several very finely sculptured heads. An especially interesting one is an Indian head of about the eighth century, in exceptionally fine condition considering its age. Dr. Ross also made a present of several very delicately colored Chinese and Persian brocades of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
Died. Rt. Honr. Sir Sa Tyendra Prassano Sinha, Baron of Raipur, 64, first Indian to be raised to the British Peerage and first Indian member of the Viceroy's Executive Council; at Calcutta, India...
...mont's head. So, on his next trip to California, he began to write history instead of geography. Mexican General Castro ordered him out of California. He went up to Oregon and waited for an excuse to raise the U. S. flag over California. An Indian attack gave it to him. Quickly he assembled U. S. settlers, made Suiter's fort his base, marched the length of California, put an end to Mexican domination, was made provisional governor and com-mander-in-chief of California. He paused only long enough to name San Francisco harbor the Golden Gate...