Word: pinching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Gandhi should reach the sea, when he should defy the British salt monopoly,* when he should break British law by scooping up a little sea water and publicly evaporating it to recover a mere pinch of salt?what then? Would enough Indians respond to this, the agreed signal for nonviolent, mass civil disobedience? Would they obey the Mahatma, abstain from paying taxes, abstain from all obedience to British employers or superiors,? buy no British cloth, and pray that they may meet Death all innocent and nonresisting at British hands...
Professor Brooke's scholarly paraphernalia is adequate and thorough as was to be expected from so expert a commentator. Some space might have been found for a discussion of Shakspere's relation to Lyly--not in the 'Pinch him' song of Falstaff's malaise where the comment suffices, but in the 'Hark! Hark! the lark' aubade from Cymbeline. The gloss ignores Trico's song in Campaspe...
...CRIMSON might well pinch-hit by running a Who's Who series (say two or three pictures daily) in its columns. This would be a decided service to the University community. Very truly yours. Paul H. Flint '30. Robert Merritt...