Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Working with Dr. Alexis Carrel on the mechanical heart (a job which he now regards as completed), Lindbergh found time for many a flying trip, to India, Russia, Germany. For three years he enjoyed peace...
...eager were the British to carry back the Cup this year, after five unsuccessful attempts, that they scoured the Empire for the best ponies they could get (the Nawab of Bhopal and the Maharaja of Kashmir, two of the richest men in India, donated eleven), shipped them to the U. S. six months in advance so that they could get acclimated, sent their best poloists almost half way round the world to California for four months of tuning-up matches against U. S. players. The 36-man, 64-horse expedition cost Britain's Hurlingham Polo Association...
...foot, bearded, spinsterish Englishman never married, he was fortunate in the young men on whom he sometimes girlishly innocent crushes. Frank Lushington became an important judge. Chichester Fortescue (Lear liked to write his name "40scue") became Lord Carlingford. Thomas George Baring became the Earl of Northbrook and Viceroy of India. Evelyn Baring became the Earl of Cromer, the "Maker of Modern Egypt." To these playful satraps of the expanding British Empire, Lear liked to write such pre-Joycean letters as this one to Evelyn Baring...
...Remo. His travels through Europe, Asia and Africa look like a map of the Barbarian Invasions. He saw Petra before Doughty, was nearly killed there by the Arabs, muddled through with superb British calm. Fanatics tried to assassinate the author of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat in India, in Turkey. At last Lear settled down in his San Remo villa with an Albanian servant and his cat Foss, "his daily companion for nearly 17 years." There he worked on his illustrations for Tennyson's poems (his musical setting to Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears, sung...
...upon her Dobie jerks retired majors from the India service out of their club chairs. But to most people, big and little, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and many punny funny drawings remain Lear's tag to fame...