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...sach other over this famous name last week. When fully and correctly written and spelled, it is said to be "Amir Muhammad-ibn Abd-el-Karim." Translated, 'Amir" is the Arabic equivalent for "Prince"; "Muhammad," of course, the Arabic spelling of "Mohammed" ; "ibn," "son"; "Abd," "of the servant"; and "ul-Karim," "of the Gracious One" (i. e. God). The whole name may thus be translated "Prince Mohammed, Son of the Servant of God"; "Mohammad" being the Prince's "given name," and "Servant of God" his "family name...
...call to decide for your city between John F. Hylan, clean and honest servant of your interest and yours alone, whose record of deeds contains no blemish, and "Little Jimmie Walker, slick and pliant politician, Broadway butterfly; advocate in public of mothers' pensions and paid in private for easing the sale of putrid and dis- eased meat to those mothers...
...have neither political nor social ambition nor financial obligations. I am only a public servant and want all the aid I can get in administering the affairs of this office...
Birth. In the days when Calcutta was the capital of India,* a beturbaned servant entered the High Court where Bhuban Mohan Das, an attorney, was declaiming the law. It took some time before the lawyer could be persuaded to give ear to his excited servant, who was vainly struggling to enter the courtroom. When at last he came to the door, he was told by the groveling servitor that a fine, fat boy had been born to his wife. Home went Bhuban, to behold the youngster whom he was to name Chitta Ranjan...
Stooping among his instruments in a lonely observatory at Juvisy, France, Camille Flammarion, 83, famed French astronomer, felt a chill in his side, slipped to the floor. Many hours later, footsteps rang on the stone stairway. The servant who entered found Flammarion where he had fallen. One arm was twisted under his body. His face, scribbled with an extraordinary network of fine lines, was curiously dis- ordered under the bush of his white hair. He was dead. When Camille Flammarion was 9, he saw an eclipse. It was not the spectacle of the little moon lying like a black penny...