Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subway (TIME, Jan. 9), contrasted, last week, his construction methods with those used in Manhattan. Since a great part of Tokyo is not, like Manhattan founded upon a rock, no drilling whatever was necessary and the Tokyo tube was simply buried in trenches cut with ease in the soft soil...
...proud young Amir of Afghanistan is the despot of a mountain realm rising like a sword between British India and Asiatic Russia. He divides one from the other, defies both. Last week the Amir Amanullah (literally "The Sovereign Lord 'Peace of God' ") set foot upon European soil at Naples, sped by specal train to Rome, began an extensive tour of the Occident...
Deposited appropriately by a battleship on Cuban soil while Marines were planning a new bombing attack on Niearaguan villages. President Coolidge eloquently clouded the issue in the speech of optimistic generalities in which he assured a doubtful world that the interests of this country are anything but imperialistic. But if the United States treatment of South America where the investments of her citizens exceed the total of those placed in Europe is not imperialistic. It is a form of aggressive and armed commercialism. Foreign nations, forbidden themselves to interfere, have sneered at what they choose to call a hypocritical, forceful...
IRON AND SMOKE-Sheila Kaye-Smith -Dutton ($2.50). The emotion which Author Kaye-Smith understands most fully, hence describes better than any other, is the emotion which men feel for their land; the humble, genuine, particular patriotism of farmers, squires, men of the soil. In most of her previous books, she has studied this feeling as it colors the loves, hatreds, hungers of poor people. In Iron and Smoke, Humphrey Mallard, heir to a baronetcy, loves his houses better than Isabel Halnaker, the mistress he relinquishes so that, to save his estates, he may marry Jenny Bastow whose father owns...
...accompanies such sorties on the morning after, when they recaptured them from their doorsills in the corridors of McKinlock. Pushed to no emulation of the native pedal refulgence it is true, the visitors still, after their fashion, set their shoes outside the door to be separated from New England soil by some nocturnal worker. And they found the attempt was bootless. It led Mr. Nugee, their leader, to declare that America's boasted efficiency is in jeopardy when a student calmly allows himself to be enthroned for ten minutes for an operation that could be easily and painlessly accomplished...