Word: memsahib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gleaming open automobile awaited the famous visitor. But when she climbed in, she did not sit down. She faced the applauding crowd, bowed her head and folded her hands before her in the Hindu posture of namqskar. It was a gesture which would have horrified and infuriated a proper memsahib of the old school; and few Western women could have attempted it without seeming fantastically silly or fantastically melodramatic. But Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, standing motionless under the Indian sky in her grandmotherly, garden-club dress, just seemed a little awkward and very earnest...