Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are still difficulties about applesauce, though the Minister of Education likes it." Innocent though such words may seem, they took on a sinister significance, later in the week, when one Ibrahim, accused of burglarizing the American College for Girls, appeared in court and stoutly retracted a confession he had made to the Police Commissioner...
...famed "Lahore the Golden," capital of the Punjab, ancient seat of the Mogul Sultan "Akbar the Magnificent," there stood on a muddy sidewalk last week, with a grin of amazement and recognition on his round red face, His Majesty's Mr. Constable Sean O'Rourke...
...Minister's hands have been tied by opposition in the House of Commons, and the British Government has in fact done nothing to meet Indian aspirations. There have been commissions of investigation, soothing statements by the Viceroy, and several bombings, but nothing definite. For example: Nobody was killed last week when "persons unknown" dynamited the empty dining car of the viceregal train. (In 1872 a knife was stuck into Lord Mayo, only Viceroy of India ever successfully assassinated. Moral: A bomb?even the one which successfully exploded in the very howdah of Viceroy Lord Hardinge of Penshurst in 1912?...
With their ultimatum in effect rejected, the Indian National Congress was at zero hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...
...that was contemplated by Saint Gandhi last week was that the Congress should follow up his Declaration of Independence by exhorting 250 million Indians to stop paying taxes, stop buying British goods, indulge in a passive orgy of "nonviolent non-coöperation...