Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago. With a soil fertile for racketeering, Chicago offers an excellent recent specimen of a well-grown and perfectly-formed dry cleaning racket. An organization known as the Chicago Master Cleaners' and Dyers' Association had acquired almost a monopoly in Chicago dyeing and cleaning. Members paid a $500 initiation fee and put up a $5,000 bond as a "guarantee of good faith." Bombing, slugging, sabotage, strike-fomenting and other standard methods were used to secure membership; eventually 92 members were lined up. They paid the association a general levy of 2% of gross business. There was also a subordinate...
...compelling are a hundred-odd pages of Joseph and His Brethren that the reader, enthusiastic, mouths them "strong," "fundamental," and "in the best tradition of English novels of the soil." But when the farmland seasons begin inevitably to recur, and the simple rustics inevitably to repeat themselves, that same reader, despondent, flutters the pages and lights upon the publisher's explanation that the work was originally planned as a short story, and later expanded to its 372 pages. Obviously ill adapted to short story, the theme of nature's dogged hold upon the lives of men is here...
...Assomoir (1877) sold 100,000 copies. This drab vignette of lowly Parisian life rooted naturalism in the literary soil. Zola married an intelligent, passionate woman. He met weekly with Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Ivan Turgeniev. He was famed, fat crammed with food. He worked incessantly ? news articles, plays, novels. His villa at Medan. outside Paris, grew in bulk and reputation. Its owner was excoriated, saluted, accused, defended. Madame Zola remained childless...
...Citizens and comrades! If within the next three years the Unequal Treaties are not abrogated, and if by that time every foreign soldier has not left the soil...
...been explained that Mr. Hoover longed to visit La Paz but did not like to step on Chilean soil, as would have been necessary, before paying his respects to Chile's highest officials at Santiago. The Bolivians had come to him after requesting permission from Chile to travel through what used to be Bolivia's corridor to the sea, the long-disputed Tacna-Arica district at the juncture of Bolivia, Chile & Peru...