Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gandhi watch is jerked from a fold of the Mahatma's first shawl (the one next his skin) to which he secures his large ("dollar") watch by a large ("baby's") safety pin. In England St. Gandhi wears a second and often a third shawl. The three cover him tentwise when he sits crosslegged, showing only his big toes, small hands and birdlike poll topped with stiff black & white hairs clipped to a length...
TIME reprinted the Daily News's composograph of Mahatma Hoover, not as news of the President of the U. S. but as a phenomenon of the U. S. Press...
Preached famed Rev. John Haynes Holmes in Manhattan on Mahatma Gandhi: "He has the dignity of a king. . . . Where do people get the idea that he is ugly? . . . His frame is large and his stature is erect and tall...
Birthdays. Paul von Hindenburg, 84; William Wrigley Jr., 70; Oscar (Waldorf; Tschirky, 65; Mahatma Gandhi, 62; Charles (''Gabby") Street, 49; Hugh Herndon...
...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 was the Mahatma's pilgrimage to cotton-spinning, overproducing Lancashire. Intensely practical, Mr. Gandhi had no idealistic...