Word: mahatmas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Robbers retreated, tigers turned tail as a rickety automobile sped out of the Himalayas late one night last week. In the car was little baldheaded, featherweight Mahatma Gandhi. He had just two hours to cover 100 miles?over roads so perilous that night driving is usually prohibited?to Kalka. Arriving at Kalka in time's nick, he was cheered by a crowd of devotees as he boarded the frontier express for Bombay. En route, admirers gave him coins and homespun yarn. One woman auspiciously sprinkled his forehead with red powder. From Bombay he was to sail for London...
...Mahatma Gandhi, still trying to make up his mind at Simla whether or not to attend a round table conference at London, retired from the world last week for his customary Day of Silence. Emerging 24 hours later, he was respectfully begged by British reporters to outline what he considered his Ten Commandments for an ideal life. St. Gandhi blinked modestly behind his glittering spectacles...
...India (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Ramon Novarro, dressed in a turban and sitting on top of an elephant, does not look in the least like Mahatma Gandhi nor any other East Indian. He does, however, look enough like the late Rudolph Valentino to inspire audience reactions of the Valentino kind if not the same degree. In this picture Novarro is an Indian merchant prince in love with a girl from Boston whose brother has once done the Indian a great favor. He has a chance to show his gratitude when the brother underlines the difficulties of inter-racial marriage. Indian pictures...
Aflutter last week was Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley Hall Settlement, Bow, who had just received a letter from her good friend Mahatma Gandhi that if & when he goes to London to confer with Prime Minister MacDonald he does not want to stay at Hampstead's Indian Hostel as expected, but at her settlement house. Reporters found Kingsley Hall very clean and neat, smelling slightly of disinfectant. It has a large flat roof from which St. Gandhi may survey the squalid East End, and a large bronze bell, presented by white-whiskered First Commissioner of Works George Lansbury...
...great man's visit. When they were all keyed up a humble looking man dressed like a coolie stepped into the lift. The liftman, not troubling to look at the Intruder, turned him out with a surly 'Get out, you. Who do you think you are? Mahatma Gandhi?' Mr. Gandhi said nothing but climbed quietly up the stairs and paid his visit to Mrs. Naidu...