Word: landsmen
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Most of this rudeness comes from those unsympathetic landsmen of the upper Mississippi valley. Enough pledges to defeat the subsidy have been secured by the newly hatched Senator Brookhart of lowa, whose precocity is something unprecedented. To be sure that good, old-fashioned "children should be seen and not heard" idea has long been dead; and Senator La Follette, a proven veteran of many a filibustering campaign, helped drive the balls into the come in his teaching days. The newcomers out of the West, Frasler, Shipstead, and Brookhart, together with the old Lochinvars, Borah, La Follette, and Norris...
...nation's resources are not being used to the best advantage when men who might make good officers enlist as privates, where they serve no greater purpose than other men without the qualifications of leadership. Nor is it conservation of resources when good landsmen from the inland country volunteer for patrol boat work because they have always had a vague yearning towards the sea; and when men who can walk with equilibrium essay to fly. It does the nation small good to grow seasick for patriotism, or to wreck a delicate machine with unskilled, though ready loyalty. The nation needs...