Word: kiplingisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is nothing startling about the Dramatic Club's first production of the season, except its contrast to the sort of thing that was being presented a year ago at this time. From unruly Mexico, the Club has shifted to the most polite drawing-room atmosphere of proper England. Of...
Known to the western world chiefly through Rudyard Kipling's story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," Herpestes griseus (or mungo) is a dingy grey-brown rodent about 30 inches long including a pointed tail. When excited, its long stiff hairs stand erect. This bristling hair, together with thick skin, is one...
Rudyard Kipling is singled out and flayed as having done more than anyone else to convince Anglo-Saxons by his pungent tales and swaggering rhymes that Indians are a conglomeration of "new-caught sullen peoples half devil and half child" and "a lesser breed without the law."
Writes Dr. Sunderland: "Seemingly Kipling's association in India with the English must have been almost exclusively with the military men and with the most imperialistic and domineering of the civil officials. As to India itself, the real India, the great India of the past and the present, with...
Col. Theodore Roosevelt the younger, hunting in Asia, grew a beard, as revealed in photographs brought home by his brother Kermit. Also, he wrote a 64-line religious poem, roughly approximating the Kipling manner, sent it to Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who published it in full on July 4 in his...