Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Massachusetts was flooded with telegrams and petitions urging a pardon for Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti, or at least an impartial investigation of their case. Twenty-two members of the British Parliament demanded immediate freedom for them. Breadmakers and taxi-drivers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and laborers in many another land went on protest strikes. Heavy guards were posted at the U. S. Department of State and at Judge Thayer's home. . . . And, meanwhile, the fish peddler and the shoemaker sat in jail, fumbling with martyrdom. They have two hopes: a technicality leading to the U. S. Supreme Court...
...said he, a "really powerful" story would expose "their pseudo culture, their slavish devotion to Nordic standards, their snobbishness, their detachment from the Negro masses and their vast sense of importance to themselves. . . . [Such a book] would be more wrathfully damned than Nigger Heaven? at present vibrating throughout the land in its eleventh edition...
...delegation will sail from New York on the S. S. Hamburg of the Hamburg-American Line on June 25 and will land at Southampton. The Members will return, sailing from Cherbourg on September 3. Each small group will make an extended visit in one country and will travel the rest of the time, including a week spent at the International Students Center at Geneva and a week at the Cite Universitaire at Paris...
...friendly to any class; they are not negligent of the interests of the poor. It is, only a remarkable grouping of special psychological conditions that brings about this miscarriage. The trial was begun in an atmosphere of fear and hatred toward men of radical opinions, anarchists, communists, pacifists. The land was to be purged of such poison by fair means or foul: "away with such fellows from the earth". That panic, with its follies and wrongs, has largely subsided; but these two men have been mentally placed in the dreaded class, and for many citizens it has become impossible...
...section on Goodness, the author does not fall to include the familiar distribe on the passion in America for proyphylactic cleanliness. It is not extraordinary that our land of prohibitions both legal and moral, provides tantalizing stimulus for any sensitive observer, be he yokel or diplomat, foreigner or native wit. In this portion of the book alone does the author play the game he has chosen for though fairry adroit satire pinch-hits for the more rugged sincerity which any critical work presupposes he nevertheless concludes his observations in more commendable fashion than he approached his unfamiliar subject...