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The Great She-Elephant, [69] [70] an allusion to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. The Grocer's Daughter, [71] a double meaning in that she was literally the daughter of a grocer, but also the successor to Edward Heath, "The Grocer". The Iron Lady [72] (See Margaret Thatcher § "The 'Iron Lady' Sounds the Alarm".)
Naulakha, also known as the Rudyard Kipling House, is a historic Shingle Style house on Kipling Road in Dummerston, Vermont, a few miles outside Brattleboro. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 for its association with the author Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who had it built in 1893 and made it his home until 1896.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Kipling House, a boarding house at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, a public school near Hertford, England; Harry Kipling, a character in 2000 AD, a British science-fiction comic; HMS Kipling, a British K-class destroyer named after the author and sunk in the Second World War; Rudyard Kipling, British steam trawler sunk in 1939
Rudyard Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay in the Bombay Presidency of British India, to Alice Kipling (born MacDonald) and John Lockwood Kipling. [13] Alice (one of the four noted MacDonald sisters ) [ 14 ] was a vivacious woman, [ 15 ] of whom Lord Dufferin would say, "Dullness and Mrs Kipling cannot exist in the same room."
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East is an 1892 novel by Rudyard Kipling in collaboration with Wolcott Balestier, which was originally serialized in The Century Magazine from November 1891 to July 1892. [1] The book is set in the fictional state of "Rahore", believed to be based on Rajputana. It was not well-received, either commercially or ...
Mulvaney is also representative of the stereotypical Irishman in that he drinks, and has lost all his good conduct pay and badges; but he is less typical in that he is an exemplary soldier in what he (and Kipling) thinks is important: he may be regularly Confined to Barracks for his misdemeanours (mostly for being drunk and disorderly)—he ...
The first line of the poem is often quoted, sometimes to ascribe racism to Kipling in regard to his views on Asians. [1] Those who quote it thus often miss the third and fourth lines, which contradict the opening line. The full refrain that opens and closes the poem reads: