Word: rashid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hindus are idolaters, and would die rather than eat the sacred flesh of cow or bull. Moslems are beef-eaters,* and abhor idolatry. Last week Swami Shradanand, noted Hindu Brahman, sat down to discuss religious matters with one Abdul Rashid, a Mohammedan, at Delhi, capital of British India. Soon they disagreed. The courtly Swami ("Lord") Shradanand sought to avoid dispute by requesting the Mohammedan to call again when they might discourse with cooler heads. Abdul Rashid, vitally vexed, drew a revolver and shot the Swami dead, was captured, jailed...
...these days of street cars and automobiles there is little indeed to connect Boston with the City of the Faithful-- Bagdad. Nonetheless the spirit of the Arabian Nights is with us still, Who does not recall how the Sultan, Harounel- Rashid accompanied by his trusty Vizier was wont to slip out of the palace gates by night and wander over the city, seeing how matters fared with the people. Or how, on the morrow, from his high throne he meted out reward and punishment to those whom he had found meritorious or wanting on the night before. Thus was justice...