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"[as Madame Mandelip]: Once you're in my shop, I'll wager you'll do anything I ask."
"[as Madame Mandelip] I may not look it, madame, but I was once a very successful banker. Three men - my partners - lied and tricked me into prison. Well, three lives are going to pay for it."
"[as Madame Mandelip] Look at me and see what seventeen years in the grave has done to me. No, Radin, without my hatred I never could have lived to exhume myself. What swine you three are!"
"[Explaining why he thinks shrinking people and animals is a good idea] Lavond, my friend, millions of years ago the creatures that roamed this world were gigantic. As they multiplied, the earth could no longer produce enough food. Think of it, Lavond: every living creature reduced to one-sixth its size. One-sixth of its physical need. Food for six times all of us!"
"Charles Matin: There'a a certain amusing irony in offering a man's own money for his capture. Fifty thousand francs? Why not?"
"Greater Than The Unholy Three"
"Lionel Barrymore — Paul Lavond"
"Maureen O'Sullivan — Lorraine Lavond"
"Frank Lawton — Toto"
"Rafaela Ottiano — Malita"
"Robert Greig — Emil Coulvet"
"Lucy Beaumont — Madame Lavond"
"Henry B. Walthall — Marcel"
"Grace Ford — Lachna"
"Pedro de Cordoba — Charles Matin"
"Arthur Hohl — Victor Radin"
"Juanita Quigley — Marguerite Coulvet"
"Claire Du Brey — Madame Coulvet"
"Rollo Lloyd — Detective Maurice"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.