Word: mirabai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ulysses Simpson Grant, regained the U. S. citizenship to which she was born in the White House in 1876. which she lost in 1899 by marrying Russian Prince Michael Cantacuzene. Regretting that she had been unable to get accommodations in anything more humble than tourist class of the Majestic, Mirabai (Madeleine Slade), British disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, arrived in Manhattan after a stormy passage. Said Mirabai, shivering in woolen robe and sandals: "Miss Slade died nine years ago when I renounced the world. ... I shall try to give Mahatma's point of view. . . . Who can say that...
...Mirabai, better known as Miss Madeleine Slade, St. Gandhi's caretaker and most devoted disciple, who came out of prison fortnight ago, gave her first Press interview last week. Everyone knows that she, a tall, grave woman with a gentle voice and a delicate, jet-black mustache, was the daughter of Admiral Sir Edmond John Warre Slade; that she gave up a position in British society for which she does not seem particularly suited to seek spiritual peace caring for the Mahatma. Until last week she never told her own story...
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