Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change in American policy which has been going on since the Monroe Doctrine was formulated a hundred years ago. The first policy of the United States--and it was welcomed by Spanish America with almost patriotic gratitude--was to keep America for Americans, to prevent European aggrandizement of American soil and resources. It was a policy of self-determination protected by a "hands off" warning to the great powers...
Having shaken the U. S. dust off his feet (TIME, Sept. 29), Lord Renfrew set foot on the soil of Canada...
...thing, education is not a geographically transferable commodity, like food-stuffs or the Federal Reserve. Whether for good or bad, it remains in one place, and rows about itself a decorative ivy of cultural tradition, bedded and nourished in the soil in which it stands; so that one hears the expression, "a southern education", "a New England education", applied to the educational heritage of particular regions of the country...
...press made much fuss about his visit, compared it to that of Lord Renfrew, as if the comparison were equal. As he had never met Renfrew, it was suggested that he meet him for the first time on U. S. soil. He replied...
...extraordinary feature of this amazing play is its persistent wit. It had to be shortened after the opening night because laughter in the audience stretched the evening until 11:30. It is humor close to the soil; sometimes it shocks; always it bites...