Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Netherlands. As everyone knows, this state of affairs has persisted because the French have bitter-endedly enforced the air restrictions imposed upon Germany by the Versailles Treaty, thus causing Germans to retaliate by closing their frontier to French airplanes and to confiscate all French machines forced down on German soil...
...Author Whitlock knows too, after eight years as U. S. Minister and Ambassador to Belgium; knows so well that upon his return to novel-writing he finds it less painful, and though less truthful, more pleasing, to make a fiction of uprooted folk who either learned to flourish without soil or were replanted where they belonged...
...creature of God." Styles may shift but, it is Miss Repplier's uncontentious contention, culture itself is not transplanted within half a century. Even if it be allowed that seeds of artistry have thriven somewhat in the western world, at least salt has not been strewn on the soil of Europe...
...course the American public is very glad that Commander Byrd is both American and a Nordic. For there is in those facts further proof that in Americanism and Nordicism lie germs of greatness which never take on alien soil. But there is sufficient reason why at this time true pride should be expressed that in an age so mechanical as to be morose, so intricate as to lose its intrigue one human has enough of the joie de vivre to wish to risk...
...will doubtless receive numerous corrections of this mistake, for we of northern California are proud of its many natural advantages, including that quality of soil and climate which made possible the many experiments of Luther Burbank...