Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return the call made upon him last April by President Gerardo Machado of Cuba by attending the opening session of the sixth international conference of American states in Havana. Should he do so, it-would be only the second time that a U. S. President had left U. S. soil on a diplomatic mission...
...denounced as the snobbery, discourtesy, superciliousness, selfishness, greed, hypocrisy and effrontery of many a white missionary, military and business man in the Orient. He told of a Chinese graduate of Yale who was cursed like a coolie by a Shanghai bank clerk; of signs in a park on Chinese soil: "No Chinamen or dogs allowed." He flayed the whites, British and U. S. alike, who commit and permit such arrogance. He roused Governor Farrington's dinner party to his own white heat of indignation and then, suddenly, blazed out: "There's beginning to be too much of that...
Miss Vanzetti said she would inter the ashes in Italian soil...
...figure of the story,. Alayne, a participant of a more effete civilization, shares the reader's interest and bewilderment at the gnarled fibrous character of old Adeline, who towers over the book like a huge shadowy tree, leaves stirring in the wind, roots stirring in the tight, tough soil...
...Born as the son of a gardner, John Paul appeared like an obscure speck in the middle of the broad canvas of the 18th Century-a canvas streaked with blood, murder, rebellion, greed, and many winds of doctrine." In Scotland, John Paul grew up on a rocky soil, dotted with small hard flowers, flanked by the blue and white banner of the sea. The sea, before long, became his native place; he loved ships and the spin of water under a whirling bow; he once wrote down: "I will not have anything to do with ships which do not sail...