Word: willingdon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill, which lay last week some 5,000 miles away on Parliament's great oak table, but they could endorse or denounce officially an epochal measure already roundly cursed by Mahatma Gandhi's unofficial Indian National Congress. The New Delhi Legislators are supposed to be Viceroy Lord Willingdon's trained seals, if an Englishman can tram Indians. Last week they decided to vote on the major premise of the proposed new status...
...Empire is as dead as a dodo." ¶ In Britain, George and Mary visited a round of airports, luckily missing one air pageant in which two aviators were killed. ¶ In Western Canada, picnicking citizens complained about the drought. ¶ In Aix-les-Bains, the Viceroy of India, Lord Willingdon, away from his post on leave, laid a wreath on a French cenotaph...
...weight of Mahatma Gandhi dropped to 93¼ lb. last week as he began one more "fast unto death" in Yerovda jail to force from the British Raj greater freedom to propagandize on behalf of India's "Untouchables." Alarmed when Faster Gandhi developed acute kidney trouble. Viceroy Earl Willingdon had him removed to a hospital, also released Mrs. Gandhi from jail to permit her to attend her husband...
...there for the rest of a long and violent life. Jamie Ferguson's daughter Ellen married a great-grandson of the Pennsylvania Dutch van Essens who settled in Midland County and started a sawmill at about the time the Colonel set up at his farm. Their son, Johnny Willingdon, grew up in the years when the Farm was running to seed. When Johnny came back, grown up, after the War, immigrants were living at the Farm and a town was creeping out towards its deteriorated fields...
...refused to exchange her status of "accommodator" for steady employment; Johnny's Uncle Robert, a champion bicycle racer who was killed in a railroad accident when, during a wild thunderstorm, his train plunged into a ravine. Sharpest of all is the picture of Johnny's Grandfather Willingdon who came home to Johnny's house when he was an old man. He lived, embittered, eccentric and alone, in a room above the kitchen that was pervaded by the aroma of his kerosene lamp, his dry tobacco and the apples he kept piled upon a table...