Word: swords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed, ascetic Mahatma is the Saint of India's Hindus; and the Pandit is now their Sword. The great Aga Khan is neither Saint nor Sword, but a very rich, fat and astute descendant of Prophet Mohammed, and therefore the most influential of Indian Mohammedans. Last week the Aga Khan traveled from his sumptuous home in Bombay (western India) to Delhi (northern India), and there prepared to sit as chairman of the all-India Mohammedan Congress. Meanwhile at Calcutta (eastern India) the predominantly Hindu so-called Indian National Congress, met under the chairmanship of Pandit Motilal Nehru, and under...
...makes a gay and gaudy minstrel show for Walter Woolf. In the story of Gil de Berault, who was sentenced to death for duelling and paroled by Cardinal Richelieu in time to achieve fortune and a beautiful partner for the final curtain, there is proper material for brocaded dresses, sword play, romantic songs and fustian foolery. All this has been contributed. Helen Gilliland, an English actress, sings when she drops her white glove and on other occasions. For dancing, there are girls very Chester Hale and hearty. Barry Lupino, British clown, is funny without being dirty...
Spring was beginning to brighten over the hills of Nazareth, in Galilee. Mary watched the dandelions, listened to the birds, dreamed of the bridalhood soon to crown her betrothal to the boy Joseph. But one night a voice clove through her dreams like a sword edged with moonlight : "Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women...
That means that French officers and soldiers will continue suavely to educate Indo-China, using the maxim that the congai is more pleasant than the sword. Congai means something just above a prostitute, one is led to believe, a native "wife" taken by a French colonist for a period of time subject to change without notice. Every bellylaugh in the play is an attempt to explain these meanings; but, of course, grown-up children like to be told all about such things, while off-stage instruments go thumpety-thumpety-thump (atmosphere...
Instead, as the sword of death hung like that of Damocles, last week, all Englishmen faced the future with the same confident thought: "Long live our King...