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...much leisure. Also we would produce more than we need and thus enforce idleness upon some other part of the world as a result of our overproduction." Abruptly St. Gandhi jerked out his dollar watch, announced that it was 7 p.m.-time to pray. Mr. Chaplin was moved to kneel and he scarcely wobbled during the long Hindu prayer. Departing after some further talk with the Mahatma, Charlie Chaplin gasped to reporters: "Gandhi is a tremendous personality, tremendous! He is a great international figure! More, he is A GREAT DRAMATIC FIGURE." Gandhi to Lancashire, Climax of the Gandhi week...
...other duel his left wrist was shattered. The duel was fought at ten paces. His opponent had urged that the combatants be permitted to advance at will up to a distance of five paces and that they continue to exchange shots "until one of them could not stand, kneel or sit." Crawford demurred...
Things had been going quite well. Up in Hupeh province government troops had just put to flight Communist General Ho Lung. They captured 1,800 of his soldiers, made them kneel in long rows while down each row tramped a government executioner with a great, broad sword. Swish, swish, swish, 1,800 heads fell. General Ho, as he fled, dropped like hot cakes Miss Esther Nordlund, 34 (and Miss Augusta Nelson, 50), missionaries (TIME, May 4). They reached Hankow safely last week, gave the first account of little-known, muchdreaded General...
...read, it seems to me that Protestants have some sort of vague notion that Catholics worship and revere and obey the Pope as peasants once did their lords. This notion is entirely false. The average Catholic has a healthy respect for the Pope, but little more. He would kneel in his presence but most certainly not at his voice. Is that not reasonable? For, after all, a voice is but a voice, whether it is that of an announcer or a Pope or a President...
...Sepulchre, were 13 other U. S. citizens last week, constituting the first national council of the Order to be formed in the U. S. Among reputed founders is Godfrey de Bouillon, a leader in the first crusade which wrested (1099) Jerusalem from the "Infidels." The 13 candidates prepared to kneel in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, be given spurs and sword, draw sword and be tapped on the shoulder with it, in true medieval fashion. Most socialite of the thirteen knights: Kenneth O'Brien, son-in-law of Knight of Malta Clarence Hungerford Mackay...