Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claims once to have been Dr. Joseph Goebbels' secretary, exposed the scheme "to avenge the death of his wife and her mother at the hands of the Gestapo." He produced a letter addressed to the Reich's Colonial Organization which declared that Patagonia is "nobody's land and we can annex it," and which told exactly how it could done. The signatures on the letter were identified as those of a German Embassy secretary and Nazi Leader Alfred Müller. Result: police arrested Leader Müller, raided Nazi Party offices. The German Charg...
...central figures are the large Joad family, Oklahoma sharecroppers, who lose their 40-acre farm to the bankers, sell their possessions for $18 to gyp agents, buy an ancient jalopy for $75 from racketeers, head out on Highway 66 for the land of plenty promised in a come-on California handbill. With them - the 13th passenger -goes lanky, philosophizing Preacher Casy, hillbilly Moses turned rustic socialist. Hero of the Joads is tall, homely son Tom, a paroled convict. Heroine is Ma Joad, strong, patient, dreaming of "a white house with oranges growin' around...
...insufferable stillness. "My arm is ready," was all he said. And it was enough; he might well have added that his throwing wing was "loose as gooseberries" or any other more dramatic announcement. But the newsmen could add all that. They had heard enough--the highest authority in the land had commented on the news the land was waiting for. His arm was ready to loss in the first ball of today's game in Griffith Stadium, opening the 1939 major league baseball season...
Harvard's Student Council has seen that it is good, this land of milk and honey which lies across the Jordan. The Councilors have looked beyond an ocean in the search for a more ideal athletic establishment, and their eyes have at long last lingered on the historic precincts of Oxford and Cambridge. The revolutionary plan which they consequently sketched and which appears in the current athletic report is nothing more nor less than an approximation to the system of athletic relationships which exist in the twin sultans of English learning...
...though independent characters, they are still part of a greater scene. The Dust Storms have pushed them along with countless thousands like them from their land of which they were so proud just because it was theirs and because it was solid and dependable. Bewildered, they drag themselves in droves to California, the land of milk and honey; their faith necessary to carry on is built on expectation of a Promised Land, where they will live in "little white houses in among the orange trees." On the road some die and some wander off. Then, once in California, they become...