Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmie Rodgers now had money. His records were played throughout the South, in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, India. He could buy all the whiskey he wanted to forget his pain. He also bought a Buick, a Packard, a Cadillac, kept a chauffeur. He bought his father a home in Meridian, built himself a $50,000 house in Kerrville, Tex., where his wife and 13-year-old daughter now live. He wore loud neckties, occasionally a ten-gallon hat, tight-waisted coats. He did vaudeville turns throughout the land, met Will Rogers at a San Antonio unemployment benefit, stole...
...envious and impatient for the heritage. He insured Amarendra's life for $20,000, stipulating that in case of death the insurance company was not to look into its manner or cause. Immediately thereafter intrigue mounted rapidly. Benoyendra set Drs. Bhattacharya, Bhattacharyee and Dhar to "ransacking all India" for a subtle poison with which to kill Amarendra. The conspirators acquired a store of tetanus germs. Benoyendra smeared the tetanus germs on the nose piece of a pair of spectacles and with firm solicitude jammed them on Amarendra's face. Amarendra contracted tetanus, sinusitis, other ills. But prayers...
Endemic in China, India, Arabia and California, the Black Death killed 60,000,000 people in the 14th and 15th Centuries. In 1665 it devastated London, was graphically described by Daniel Defoe in his Journal of the Plague Year...
Last year a plump-faced Briton flew from London to India. He was Maurice Wilson, 37, son of a Yorkshire woolen manufacturer, Wartime infantry captain, holder of the Military Cross. He wanted to land his plane on East Rongbuk glacier (see map try to reach Everest's top from there. The Indian Government refused to let him fly over Nepal, forbade him to make any attempt on the mountain at all, kept him under surveillance. Maurice Wilson held his peace, undertook a severe training regime. He believed that previous Everest expeditions had been overmanned, that the hardiest climbers...
...flyers who were the first to look down on the sacred mountain were careful to keep clear of Tibet, but the holy men in Lhasa fumed at the desecration. Last winter the gods of Everest seemed angry. The Dalai Lama died. A catastrophic earthquake shook North India, killing thousands. When news of Everest's latest victim reached Lhasa last week, there was grim and pious chuckling...