Word: karamchand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lingerie was none other than that pious midget the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He had amplified his customary loin cloth with a scarf thrown over his shoulders, and a cheap watch dangled from his waist. Perspiring porters rushed ashore with St. Gandhi's clattering collection of stew pans, his mattress, his cans of goat's milk and his suitcase. But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma...
...Winston Churchill has denounced me as 'a half-naked, seditious fakir,' " observed Mahandas Karamchand Gandhi, nine-tenths-naked at Calcutta last week. "It has become the fashion to laugh at my loin cloth. I would like to explain what it means to me and why I wear...
...understand that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has tuberculosis. Will you p'ease inform us when St. Gandhi contracted the disease and what his condition is at present, if those rumors are true? We should like to have this information immediately as we wish to use it in connection with an article to appear in the coming Optimist. We should also appreciate other details which you may have available concerning Mr. Gandhi's tuberculosis...
...first time in his life Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi posed last week for the talkies. "Louder, Mr. Gandhi! Louder please" wailed the talkie men. Lisped the Mahatma: "If I go to America I should like to travel not as a freak or object of curiosity in a penny peep show." Ordeal over, St. Gandhi shuddered: "It was torture, torture...
...goes about saying "I am a saint," people think him crazy. A saint is expected to go about saying "I am not a saint," the precedent having been set long ago. Last week in the small town of Sisroda (in Bombay Presidency near the sea), Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi followed precedent...