Word: rootlessness
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...Lord Rothermere ("although it was before the days of his peerage"), the "inevitable" Berry Wall, Tennis Player Suzanne Lenglen, "whom I boldly declare to have possessed, in her delightfully modeled bathing suit, the most beautiful figure of a woman I have ever seen in my life." This harmless, pointless, rootless existence, stirred from time to time, like seaweed in the tide, by the fluctuations of the franc, took up most of Oppenheim's life and takes up most of his autobiography...
...mechanics, William Sebold went too; before he was 19 he was a machine-gunner on the Western Front. When the Ruhr was swept by the Revolution, William Sebold lived through it. Later, like many another German of his generation, he went to sea. For years he lived the rootless, lonely, self-contained life of the post-war wanderers, never quite able to master the language of the people he lived with, never quite at home among them, and yet unable to feel at home where he had grown...
...that reason many a free-wheeling Democrat, many a Republican would like to see him President of the U. S. He was willing to accept the Republican nomination for the Presidency, but no one had figured out how to start him off.* With no party backing, he was a rootless flower in the political garden. Then, in Wall Street, an amateur political gardener announced he would do the necessary spadework...
...miles from the Indo-Chinese border, and thence drove inland toward the city of Nanning. This was their long-expected drive to cut the routes to China from French Indo-China and British Burma. It was a threat not only to China (which will be dry as a rootless tree if the routes are cut) but also to French and British and indirectly Dutch and U. S. interests in the Far East...
...pictures, with little shading, in glistening blacks and lurid tans. But to white readers who object to their violent brushwork they might truthfully reply: Negro life is violent. Author Turpin's story traces the fortunes of a Negro family from its uprooting in the Civil War to its rootless present. Martha, daughter of a plantation slave, died too soon to prevent her daughter from growing up in a bawdy house. Her granddaughter, starting off as a respectable farmer's wife, ended up on the Harlem stage, mothered a high-minded athlete who was painfully settling down at story...