Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clemenceau, a few short weeks before Death came to him (TIME, Dec. 2), wrote the Earl's most adequate epitaph, recalled that at the Peace Conference "Mr. Arthur Balfour [was] the most cultured, the most gracious, the most courteous of adamantine...
...Three weeks ago she demanded, her black eyes flashing, to be let out of prison on bail. When this was refused she hunger- struck. In consternation some thousands of thrifty French peasants and shopkeepers who still hope to get something back on their Hanau stock, clamored that the death of Mme Hanau would make it impossible to untangle her finances, demanded that she be forcibly...
...mere pinch of salt?what then? Would enough Indians respond to this, the agreed signal for nonviolent, mass civil disobedience? Would they obey the Mahatma, abstain from paying taxes, abstain from all obedience to British employers or superiors,? buy no British cloth, and pray that they may meet Death all innocent and nonresisting at British hands...
Time set all this right, but one night, years later. Mr. Gandhi who wished to sit up with his sick father, was persuaded by Mrs. Gandhi to come to bed. The remorse of the Mahatma, when a servant knocked on the bedroom door and announced his father's death, prostrated him for two days. Not until Mrs. Gandhi passed middle age could he regard her as an intellectual helpmate...
...Placid inaction by an Indian native soldier, after his British officer has commanded him to act, is of course the death-punishable crime of mutiny...