Word: loincloth
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Queen Mary smiled provingly. Mr. Gandhi was not in "morning dress" as the royal invitation had requested (TIME, Nov. 9) but he was wearing a loincloth wider by a thumb's breadth than usual, and a shawl of homespun. Queen Mary saw nothing unseemly, betrayed the merest flicker of interest as she espied the Mahatma's dangling dollar watch...
...reporters perspiring in the Red Sea heat, St. Gandhi explained that only if the weather became exceptionally cold would he modify his famed loincloth in Britain. Then he would wear a woolen loincloth, reaching his ankles, and a white cotton jacket, specially woven for him by big-toed Raymond Duncan, esthete brother of the late great Isadora. ¶ On Sunday the Mahatma attended Christian service in the Rajputana's main saloon. Because it is his favorite hymn his thin reedy voice was heard piping "Lead Kindly Light" amid the enshrouding boom of British baritones...
...dropped from 1929's high of 57½? to the historic low of 25½?per fine ounce. The only notable interruption was the remarkable corner staged last year by Chimauram Motilal, aged Hindu who drives in a Cadillac, carries a Malacca stick, wears but a white loincloth and a turban. But last week with much yelling and gesticulating Bombay silver buyers shoved the price up 1.66%. The gain was of paramount importance to the buying-power of 500,000,000 Far-Easterners. To China it was especially welcome.*Long-coated, silk-trousered members of the Shanghai Gold Stock...
Mahatma Gandhi announced that when he attends the Federal Structures Committee meeting in London next September he will live in an East End poorhouse called Kingsley Hall and will appear before the King barefoot and clad in loincloth and shawl, weather permitting...
Asked to confirm or deny that he will call upon George V and Queen Mary wearing only a "gossamer loincloth" (TIME, April 13), Mr. Gandhi indicated that the June conference might be postponed indefinitely. But, said he: "As for the King of England it would be discourteous if I should go to Buckingham Palace in any other attire than my accustomed Indian dhoti" (loincloth...