Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excavations of the village occupied four years, and was completed last-summer. Native Mexicans were hired to assist in the excavation of the specimens, which demanded great care in handling, since they had lain a long time in the arid soil and has become fragile...
...idea of women voting. Fancy a dame of 1840 penning a note to a Mrs. Hubbard of Chesterton, Md.: "We have received your nice slogan and it wins the prize." In 1840, men were shouting in the torchlit streets: "Fifty-four-forty or fight!" In 1856, Republicans punned: "Free soil, free speech, free men and Fremont." A resounding, if somewhat vague, slogan was Theodore Roosevelt's cry in 1912: "We stand at Armageddon and fight for the Lord." This was far less successful than the gluttonous Republican shout of 1896: "McKinley and the full dinner pail...
President Hurie looked out his office window. Clarksville, he thought, a quiet town . . . trees, lawns, Missouri Pacific depot, county court house . . . not like New York, very poor, every body . . . last spring's rains and floods, top soil washed away, cotton crop a failure, last year's cotton sold for only a few cents a pound. No money in Clarksville. I have $3,000 in the bank . . . savings of 15 years teaching . . . 1912, graduated Union Theological Seminary, preached in some New York churches. Perhaps, can raise the $115,000 there...
...also said that the Rumanian government had politically and officially hinted to the Government of France that it would be glad if Prince Carol were removed from French soil, pointing out that it was anomalous for the Republic to harbor a Prince who was plotting against a friendly state...
Hearing this, it was said that Prime Minister Benito Mussuloni of Italy had forthwith wired to Prince Carol offering him asylum on Italian soil, the inference of course being that Italy's aspirations in the Balkans would benefit if Carol were recalled to Rumania as King...