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“Gunga Din”

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  1. (1890) A poem by Rudyard Kipling about the native water carrier for a British regiment in India.


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Around this time, an ad had appeared in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle for a double feature of “Gunga Din” with Cary Grant and “The Great Man Votes” with John Barrymore.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2017

The juxtaposition of these frenzied homages beside the actual veterans’ more modest reminiscences, overlaid with a variety of stage tableaus, does neither half of “Gunga Din” any favors.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2012