Word: saintedness
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At Yerovda Jail near Poona, in a cell not far from the one which houses the sainted person of Mahatma Gandhi, one day last week sat another Nationalist leader named L. B. Bhopatkar. Suddenly he heard a warning shout, saw before him a large, ugly cobra. The warden who had...
Second Piatiletka. Since last summer the Caspian (State Planning Commission) has been studying, planning, replanning a program for the years 1933-37. Last week on the eighth anniversary of the death of Bolshevism's sainted Lenin, its work was done. Author of the plan was Gosplan Chairman Valerian Kuybyshev, onetime...
Born to a rich family, Florence found no pleasure in parties, housekeeping, beaux or reading-to-Fath.er, as did most of her early Victorian contemporaries. She wanted to Do Something. Aged 34. she scandalized her family by taking up nursing, a profession which at that time chiefly attracted tipplers and bawds. When...
The late great expatriate Author Henry James (1843-1916), pontifical in his generation, was fast diffused by death, has become in these days largely a sainted memory. But echoes of James's hesitant subtlety have been rare in the novels of his successors. R. E. Spencer shows in his first...
The Great Harrington, This play makes a bungling attempt at the temporal trickery which Mr. Henry James originally thought up and which was later used in a play called Berkeley Square. But instead of plausibly explaining the hiatus which exists between the dead past and the present as did Berkeley...