Word: loins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side), neutral umpires, short duration (two or three weeks). "The object of each army would be the capture of as many as possible of the enemy and of their company banners and regimental flags. . . . The agreed and standardized weapon would probably be a padded wicker helmet and a loin-protector. . . . I suggest that the first reformed war should be fought on Swedish territory? admirably suited to maneuver?between Italy and France, those two most gloryloving powers...
...Here Brahman Moonje described minutely atrocious methods employed by the police of British India when dispersing crowds of non-violent Gandhite demonstrators for independence. News editors throughout the U. S. unanimously suppressed these details as unprintable. The gist: after tearing off Gandhite loin cloths, the police perpetrated upon the exposed parts painful indignities...
Secretary Stimson is just two years older than Mahatma Gandhi, 61, and far more robust. Yet if Mr. Stimson had taken off all except a loin cloth when he landed at Southampton (TIME, Jan. 20, et seq.) and had walked barefoot the 80 miles to London, seeking thus to impress the World with his holy resolve to make the Naval Conference a success, Englishmen would have thought...
...Indian Legislative Assembly to resign. At once 23 did resign. The Government then fixed Jan. 26 as the date for a "nationwide demonstration." Great was the triumph of India's ascetic little Saint, famed Mahatma Gandhi, boss-politician and demigod of the Congress. Usually he wears only a loin cloth, but at the final session at which his Declaration of Independence was adopted he appeared exclusively clad in a large white sheet which flapped dramatically as he gestured...
With their ultimatum in effect rejected, the Indian National Congress was at zero hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...