Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dapper, debonair Tugwell asserted that he was a real dirt farmer albeit the soil on his shoes came from an early morning stroll through his apple orchard and this week, Washington's No. 1 man, Richberg reveals he is a born conservative, dyed in the purple and to the manor bern. Meanwhile the sudden change fro m "End Poverty," to "End Prosperity," in Sinclair's slogan for California has resulted in a rebuff from Roosevelt which materially damages that picturesque purveyor of political panaceas' chances of election. An entertaining spectacle this, in all its ironic humor, but pertinent to this...
...front cover) California is a phenomenon as well as a state. Its soil rises to the highest point in the 48 United States (Mt. Whitney, 14,496 ft.), sinks to the continent's deepest dimple (Death Valley, -276 ft.). In the fragrant gloom of Sequoia National Park indigenously grow some of the world's hugest trees; yet most Californians rest under the shade of the transplanted Australian eucalyptus. Across the State's deserts, prospectors still ride dusty, neat-footed burros, while at Santa Monica mechanics in the Douglas plant build some of the world's fastest...
Rich in solid, simple philosophy, fairly pungent with the fertile warth of the Iowa soil which nurtures its characters, "The Folks" is an understanding and deeply moving portrayal of the changing pattern of small-town life in the American Middle-West. Ruth Suckow does not look upon her people with the sophisticated, cynical, despising eyes of Sinclair Lewis, for she knows them well and has a true understanding of their problems and a profound sympathy for them in their struggle to adapt themselves to the basically altered conditions of modern life. The old security of farm, home, and church...
...green of heaven, the distant rims of the world are suffused into the gathering twilight. The land is barren and fruitless except for the smiling champaigns of flowers blotched intermittently throughout all the wastes. There is no wind, or breath of air, or life along this unemancipated expanse of soil. For the world and all its singing birds and budding trees and songs and mountains and summits are shut outside. There is no life here. There can never be life save for that antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of this particular formation of earth, which...
...dilapidated mortgaged farm lent them by an uncle go unemployed John Sims (Tom Keene) and his wife Mary (Karen Morley). Living on sardines and hacking forlornly at the soil with a spade, they are happy to take in a passerby and his family who have been dispossessed. John puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit...