Word: pundit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ceremonials began there arrived as Dharmadhikari or High Priest the Pundit Vishnu Raghunath Karandikar, representing the Hindu Primate, His Holiness Jagadguru Shankaracharya, who was simultaneously understood to be offering potent prayers for the babe in India. Presently the Goddess of Destiny was invited to enter the birth chamber and inscribe upon the forehead of the newborn child its fate. When a decent interval had elapsed, Pundit Karandikar went in to see what had happened, and clearly beheld upon the infant's brow these prophecies, or rather ordinations of the Goddess: 1.) "She will be an artistic genius, witty...
Many a political pundit, especially the editorial writers of Eastern newspapers, expressed horror at Mr. Britten's "amazing indiscretion." They tartly accused him of publicity-seeking. They said he was trying to show off because he had just become chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee. They reminded people that he was the Congressman who wangled the Army-Navy football game out of the East and onto Soldier Field, Chicago, two years ago-a "publicity stunt" if ever there was one. Moreover Mr. Britten had been notoriously a Big Navy man. His volte face could only be meant...
...wake for the mighty splash of marlin, yellowtail or amberjack. But the splashes that came were comparatively small-a 15-pound dolphin, a 5-pound Spanish mackerel. A third fish, the "biggest one," got away. Beside Mr. Hoover in his launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark Sullivan, political pundit of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Just as Mr. Hoover's "biggest one" struck, Pundit Sullivan hooked a small but active dolphin. Unaware of any call for etiquette, the Sullivan dolphin rushed across the Hoover line, fouled it, dragged the new Hoover reel off the new Hoover...
...Author. At a conference of press correspondents in Albany the late Robert Fuller was so conspicuous for his intelligent questions that Charles Evans Hughes marked him, later appointed him his gubernatorial secretary and right hand man. A graduate of Harvard (1888), 18 years a newspaperman-reporter, editor, political pundit-he spent the last 20 years of his life in public service, representing Mr. Hughes's "ideal of the faithful, intelligent public servant, the sort that makes democracy worth while...
...encouragement of co-operative marketing associations, further reliance upon the protective tariff. "Sometimes I wonder," said the President, "if gatherings of farmers are not a little tired of hearing discussions of farm relief." ¶ Apropos President Coolidge's dutiful diligence in the closing months of his administration, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan of the arch-Republican New York Herald-Tribune ventured a respectful semi-prophecy: ". . . One cannot help feeling it is within possibility that Mr. Coolidge's high regard for his office may result, sometime before he retires, in something that may have the mood of George Washington...