Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Intellectually such words are nonsense. Emotionally, they may prove to be the acme of British commonsense. The situation in Palestine had become quiet last week, with 5,000 British troops policing the land, disarming both, Jews and Arabs, recovering loot seized in the riots, massacres and town-burnings of last fortnight. Quite possible the best way to quench the strife of Islam v. Israel was to make both factions feel that further slaughter would be common murder, not glorious and justifiable vengeance taken upon a rival race and creed...
...First Prophet John Alexander Dowie (who stoutly insisted that the devil was a Methodist), Zion City has regained its solvency under rising real estate values and the shrewd rule of Overseer Voliva. Tall, stern-faced, he runs the city of 6,300 on a communal plan, renting the land under 1,100-year leases and controlling the few industries. A feature of his realm is his museum of the pomps and vanities, from wasp-waist corsets to collapsible lipsticks, which he had made his disciples discard. Theatre and cinema houses are banned in Zion. So is tobacco...
Sunlight Soap, made from vegetable oils and superior to the tallow soaps then (1885) generally in use, was almost immediately successful, became inside of three years the largest selling soap in the United Kingdom. In 1887 Soapman Lever reclaimed a large area of swampy land along the Mersey River and built Port Sunlight, perhaps the earliest instance of the paternal industrialism it represents...
...indeed, were cashed before their illegitimate origin was discovered; on the third?the $225,000 draft to the Pueblo bank?the Chase bank refused payment in order to make a test case, go into court and turn the problem over to the law?or rather the lawyers? of the land. Certainly the defrauded banks were sadly tricked. On the other hand the innocently profiting banks have legally collected a legal debt and, considering the Bank of Telluride's condition, they perhaps received their money in the only manner that it could ever have been obtained. Should they consider it their...
...tale concerns Hidalgo County in far southeastern Texas. Twenty years ago Hidalgo was flat, hot, empty, covered with mesquite, stalked by lonely, dusty greasers. Today Hidalgo is a shining, fertile land, starred with endless constellations of grapefruit, melons and other juici- nesses?a lustrous feat of irrigation. Its crop is estimated at 4,500 carloads per year. Hidalgo homes are prosperous. Yancy Baker, onetime roughriding Hidalgo sheriff, now Democratic boss, lives in an enormous red and yellow showr place. Hidalgo people smile in the sun. Hidalgo ripens like its fruits. It has been irrigated financially through troughs of clever politics...