Word: loin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the haranguing Pandit meant was coldly and succinctly put to the Subjects Committee of the Congress by skinny, self-starved Mahatma Gandhi, squatting as usual on his little dais, naked except for a loin cloth-fanatically revered...
Little Joe, by the way, has been very unruly this week. Lie insists on telling everyone that Yale will win by three touchdowns, despite my explaining to loin the New liaren traditions of quarter back play. He sees no logical reason why a porous Harvard line becomes adamant within their own ten-yard line. The fact that Yale has scored but one touchdown in the Stadium since 1907 doesn't mean a things to him. He has never seen the Yale trick play of a pass from the center to the great open spaces. But the little fellow will learn...
Significance. To hear Sir Thomas, apostle of "Rule Britannia" one would suppose the Mahatma, apostle of "Rule India," entirely down and out. Actually, Gandhi, a tense, passionate ascetic, usually clad only in a loin cloth and a sash, was easily the dominant figure of the last Indian National Congress. The Occidental press was poorly represented, and only recently* has the picturesque story of the Congress come to light. It sat in a great tent of hand-woven khaddar, at Gauhati, in remote Upper India. Great palms and forest trees canopied the Congress tent, the 5,000 delegates and spectators slept...
...Shocked, because the sumos wear no garments except a loin cloth and a belt by grasping which they strive to throw each other...
...evening dress, the men can still afford to retort: "Isn't that just like a woman?" This misguided Englishwoman proceeds on the absurd premise that people want to dress comfortably. If comfort were the prime object of top hats and stiff shirts, they would give place at once to loin cloths and beads. Ever since garments have risen to the dignity of clothes, they have been ornaments first, and conveniences second; and if they fail in their first function, modern men can console themselves with the reflection that men in general would be still homelier in a state of nature...