Queen Mary : Victoria Mary of Teck (1867-1953), consort of King George V of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, crowned with him in 1911.
... brings into focus another angle on the subject of 'Swadeshistes.' This was 1911 and the British King, George V who had been crowned the previous year, was on the point of paying a visit with his queen Mary to the 'brightest jewel' of his empire. The French Foreign Office was all of a dither, and surely had talked to the Colonial Ministry. Page 237 Paris, 13 October 1911 "While... 1912, the governor added that the secret police were to leave the French territory any day now, because "the British monarchs have today sailed to Europe from Bombay." Well, King George V and Queen Mary left the shores of India after announcing that the Partition of Bengal—the settled and irrevocable fact—was now revoked, and that Bengal was again one, undivided. Everyone in the government heaved ...
... All propensity to make me figure in the big Barnum circus of journalistic "features" along with or in competition with Joe Louis the prize-fighter, Douglas Fairbanks, H. G. Wells, King George and Queen Mary, Haile Selassie, Hobbs, Hitler, Jack the Ripper (or any modern substitute of his) and Mussolini should Page 687 be strictly banished from the mentality for evermore and the day after ...
... parades of camels and that the Nawab (Begum’s son) had a stable of beautiful Arabian horses that were also often paraded through the streets during times of pageantry and festivals. Tehmi went to Queen Mary School in Bombay and was finely trained in the arts, academics and gymnastics by the excellent English teachers who taught there. She told me that she excelled academically achieving the highest ...
... of a powerful instrumentalism—at least in a rajasic man. A sattwic fellow would do it also but on other lines. You—ahem! Doctor in the same boat as the patients? When will you put me on the "Queen Mary"? When will you walk in? Very dawdling and deliberate gait, sir! April 20, 1936 The qualities you enumerate of the rajasic man's instrumentalism are more inborn than acquired, it ...
... mirror was the mirror that had belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots. Well, there is a prophecy or a superstition that whoever looks into that mirror will marry thrice and come to grief - just like Queen Mary. Well, my companion was a modern lady, so she looked all the more at the mirror, with a sweet smile. I don't know what she saw. Then we passed on. From what I learned later, I understand that the ...
... All propensity to make me figure in the big Barnum circus of journalistic "features" along with or in competition with Joe Zones, the prize-fighter, Douglas Fairbanks, H. G. Wells, King George and Queen Mary, Haile Selassie, Hobbs, Hitler, Jack the Ripper (or any modern substitute of his) and Mussolini should be strictly banished from the mentality for evermore and the day after.² 24-9-1935 ...
... instead of a golden baton. And to the consternation of the assembled dignitaries, he was the one prince who did not walk backwards after presenting himself before the King-Emperor George V and his Queen Mary. Page 24 ...
... father-in-law was unusually liberal-minded. He enabled Kamaladevi to pursue her studies and also advised her to remarry. Having finished high school in Mangalore, Kamaladevi joined Queen Mary's College in Madras, where she developed a friendship with Suhasini Chattopadhyay, Sarojini Naidu's younger sister who was also studying there. The Chattopadhyays, a celebrated family of Calcutta ...
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