Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King and himself as Führer. But his outspoken criticism of Mme Lupescu, alienated him from royal favor. Last April, when the great plot to dethrone Carol was revealed, 1,500 of his followers were arrested and M. Codreanu, with the little bag of Rumania's "sacred soil" that all Iron Guardsmen wore under their green shirts, went finally to jail...
...Front Cover) There are 6,000 golf courses in the U. S., 2,000 in the British Empire, only 1,000 in the rest of the world. Because two-thirds of the world's golf is played on U. S. soil, it is not surprising that U. S. golfers have the reputation of being the world's best...
...gently rolling hills of Southern Connecticut, within an hour or two's easy ride from any Manhattan bar, lies the greatest concentration of literary and intellectual celebrities and near-celebrities in the U. S. Some live there all year round, others appear in the summer. Tilling of the soil is widespread; as a topic of conversation it is universal. It was inevitable that one day from this bucolic Parnassus should come forth an urbane country weekly. This week it came forth: the Connecticut Nutmeg, an 8-page tabloid with no pictures except two large nutmegs on either side...
Franco's army contains few Spaniards, many hired Moorish cut throats, drafted Italian and German cannon fodder. Lee's army was as native to its soil as the Swanee River...
Stating that the murals are a strong incentive to the youth of Harvard to glorify war, F. Welch Peel '39, president of the organization, condemned the false patriotism behind them. "We feel that jingoism of this sort was mainly responsible for the pointless slaughter of American youth on foreign soil in the World War," Peel declared...