Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done, managing their own affairs through family and village and guild, and continuing to multiply and replenish the earth. Many of her farmers are among the most skillful in the world. In large regions, land cultivated for thousands of years is still intensively productive. She has the most elaborate canal system in the world. She has probably made more progress in education in twenty years than has any other country, and the critics of her government must remember that she is endeavoring to build a modern republic upon the ruins of a monarchical system three thousand years...
...ship is to the sea--which covers 73 per cent of the earth's surface--what the steamboat is to canal and river, the truck and automobile to the highways. It is the means of transporting freight and passengers from place to place; and just as Americans own and operate the agencies of transportation on their interior waters, highways, and railroads, so should they own and operate enough ships to carry their commerce on the seas...
...Herbert Quick's new book, "Vandemark's Folly", deals with the settling of the great stretches of farm land just beyond the Mississippi, which were opened up to the world when the Erie Canal was put in operation. In an easy narrative style that is at the same time picturesque and readable, he tells the story of a small boy, born in a village in Central New York, near the great canal, who is drawn into the rush westward. The early chapters on the life along the canal, the story of the young man's journey, and the description...
...Quick's main character, "Cow" Vandemark, is delightful, however; slow-thinking, accurate, plodding soul that he is. His early experiences on the canal, his naive behaviour in difficult circumstances, his conscientions adherence to his blundering theories make him a figure that contrasts pleasantly with the average man-in-the-novel of today. How the heroine, above-mentioned, who would have been much more at home in a Fitzgerald "flapper" story, could have had any use for him is beyond comprehension. Mr. Quick's casual characterization is also attractive. He gives his impressions after the manner of some of our better...
...notion of a reward should bring a roar of laughter from those who know Germany's financial state. "Laugh and the world laughs with you" is still a live adage across the Rhine. It will be interesting to see whether the convict-clown will be finally discovered playfully torpedoing canal barges in the proposed trans-Alpine waterway, or indulging in a lively game of "pease-porridge-hot" with his former jailers. Either would be a fitting third act, and one at which the Germans could indulge in their infectious laughter to the merriment of everyone. Indeed, 'tis a pretty play...