Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail cell in Poona last week squatted India's most famous man, the wizened little brown man with the big-eared, big-eyed face of a bespectacled lemur: the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. For four months he had been out of the news, drinking goat's milk, spinning cotton on his charkha, brooding as ever on the woes of India's Pariah Untouchables. Inside the bare parched skull "a tempest was raging." Finally, "the voice became insistent and said, 'Why don't you do it?' I resisted but in vain.'' Last week...
...expert was Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, who has labored in India 25 years, whose Christ of the Indian Road is one of the best known evangelical works of modern times. Dr. Jones counts Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore among his friends; Indians call him Rishi (Holy Sage). Christian Modernists and Fundamentalists have both claimed Dr. Jones. The Methodist Episcopal Church thrice offered him bishoprics, but his only allegiance is to its Board of Foreign Missions...
...little old gentleman with a beard, a beady eye and the butt of a frayed cigar, who is known as New York's most persistent exhibition visitor. He is one of the most persistent newspaper letter writers in the country. Not long ago he adopted the title Mahatma (Great Soul) and has spent a small fortune printing little pamphlets and books to prove that he is the greatest painter, poet, musician and "Ex Fancy Amateur Dancer" in the world. He has also invented a portable piano and a game like pinochle known as "Sixers" (TIME...
...Mahatma protested less, the art world almost certainly would have accepted him sooner. About a year and one-half ago critics discovered for themselves that the ingenuous, colorful little canvases of the Mahatma Eilshemius really are worthy of serious attention. He was hailed as the "American Rousseau." Museums and collectors interested in modern art hastened to buy his pictures. At his exhibition at the Valentine Galleries in New York in March, 40 canvases were sold, almost a Depression record. Among the purchasers were the Detroit and Cleveland Museums but few critics ever expected the sedate Metropolitan to join the procession...
...Mahatma received the news last week in bed where he has been suffering with a torn ligament from an automobile accident in July. He was not surprised...