Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have always done my duty and that is a great satisfaction for my conscience. I count on my people and I assure you that the King will die at his post and that mud will not soil...
...style of building for modern domestic purposes, there is now a marked tendency to erect elaborate imitations of England's more famous colleges in American Universities. The assumption appears to be that culture is a kind of moss which grows spontaneously where a suitably medieval building offers the appropriate soil. London Nation...
...suggests four things: that no amount of grease paint will make Colleen Moore look very much older than, say, 30; that Ben Lyon and Phyllis Haver are both of the genus stuffed shirt and may as well resign themselves to that fate; that Wallace Beery can play a stolid soil-tiller to the last grunt; that Director Charles Brabin bent carefully over his knitting of deft acting into homely, racy atmosphere, until the final quarter of this film; then Director Brabin dropped the needles and cried: "Paste up the rest...
...Plants. Certain plants can be made to change from male to female or the reverse by altering conditions of soil, moisture, light. The inference is that sex is dependent on environment.-Prof. John H. Shaffner, Ohio State University...
Thus ex-Premier Zogu, who was once ousted by the popular Bishop Noli (TIME, June 23), returned triumphant to his native soil, became Premier once more. In the capital, Tirana, he was received with loud cheers...