Word: indias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...season Manager Edward Johnson offered her the coveted opening night, suggested that she sing her favorite role, Lakmé. Last week Pons fans were surprised to see that her once-frail body had plumped up to 114 lbs., was suntanned to the right shade for her Indian role. From India she had returned with twelve saris (wraparound Hindu dresses), six of which Dressmaker Valentina wrapped into costumes for Lakmé. Sharing Lily's backstage dressing room were three long-haired Tibetan dogs named Wah-ping, Shun-lo and Gobi (who recently made an appearance with Lotte Lehmann...
...John was a successful textile merchant of 32 when his wife and two daughters died unexpectedly. Ill and atrabilious, he began a round-the-world trip with all the comforts of home (items: a horse and a portrait painter). In Luxor, Egypt, he drew up his will; in Bombay, India, he died...
Died. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, 85, revered Indian scholar and Nationalist, champion of orthodox Hinduism; in New Delhi. A former president of India's Congress Party, longtime friend of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he helped to found and was the guiding spirit of famed Benares Hindu University, which has become the center of the ancient Vedic (Hindu) culture...
...institution of decided Crimson hue in far-off Cambridge since the year 1644, decided to "educate ministers in their own way," and ten clergymen, Harvard graduates all, convened to do the job. Not until 18 years later, however, in 1718 when a certain Governor of the British East India Company saw fit to contribute his fortune to the Arts and Sciences, did the embryo college become financially secure, and in gratitude they immortalized the name of Elihu Yale...
...Stamford Raffles reached London with little more than the clothes he wore. At East India House, the Company directors handed the creator of Singapore a bill for expenses amounting to ?22,000. A few days later, on the morning of his 45th birthday, Raffles was found at the foot of his staircase, dead of apoplexy. Said the physician in his report: "The sufferings of the deceased must, for some time past, have been most intense...