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... Accorded of your vanity. charity. The Dalai Lama has returned to Lhassa from India with a large zinc bath-tub. It will upset all our notions of Far-Eastern religions if a mere zinc bath-tub is going to make the Dalai Lama believe that cleanliness is next to ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 901 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

CUFF COMMENTS

... credibly reported that when conducting an argu ment Clytemnestra preferred an axe to a hat-pin. The Sultan, the Pope, and the Dalai Lama have all claimed to be the Special Am bassador of Heaven on Earth, but now that title has been conferred by an American ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 867 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... prospect of being able to buy wives through his bounty. Just when the Royal Commis sion on Divorce is sitting, too. The Dalai Lama has fled towards India, but the Tibetan people are said not to be satisfied with his atti tude. They must not be too hard ...

Published: Wednesday 09 March 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 827 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

CUFF COMMENTS

... continues on the Stock Exchange. The bulls remember the rain of February, and are afraid of getting their feet wet. The Dalai Lama has to sleep in the attic of his Indian hotel because no one is allowed to sleep nearer heaven than himself. And we poets ...

Published: Wednesday 16 March 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 818 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... a handy little brochure on Polar Etiquette; or, How to Bow to a Bear, by a Member of the Aristocracy. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is very pleased with India, and is quite comfort able at his hotel, which he has had draped with yellow silk. This is a ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1910
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 759 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

CUFF COMMENTS

... coming into line with the rest of the world, and will shortly have a set of postage stamps of its own. This comes of the Dalai Lama having bought a zinc bath tub. The Thibetans will want to go stamp-licking next. At a Norfolk village dance a young woman ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 953 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations