Word: soiler
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...Holy crap, Mom! Shhh! My future constituents can’t know about that. I mean, seriously, the only sheet-soiler to make it to the U.S. Senate was John F. Kennedy ’40 and look at what happened...
...Bruce: "I can conceive of nothing more deplorable, nothing more tragic, nothing more scandalous, but I take human nature as it is. In other words, I look at this question exactly as the Free Soiler looked at the institution of slavery...
Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887, Amherst graduate, Congregationalist minister, lecturer, a free-Soiler...
...maintain it at whatever cost, and his clear foresight into the political future. He hated the Abolitionists, who were altogether too unconventional for him, but he made his debut in political life as chairman of the Free Soil Meetings at the Tremont Temple. He declared: 'I am a Free Soiler because I am (who should not say so) of the stock of the old northern gentry, and have a particular dislike to any subserviency, or even appearance of subserviency, on the part of our people to the slave-holding oligarchy.' After the close of the war Mr. Dana resigned...
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