Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, the CRIMSON is saying in effect, "Let us be gentlemen in the matter. . After all the objectionable aspects of Nazism are only used to keep the vulgar mobs in control. There is no reason why the methods which Gentlemen are forced to soil their fingers with in the market place should be used to discredit them among other Gentlemen in the drawing room. Business is business;" if the CRIMSON is saying this, then we can have no discussion with it. For we, too, consider that Nazism is the weapon of the German Gentlemen to keep the German mobs...
...heels of the forty-niners, and gave the Golden State and its people their peculiarly distinctive character. Francine Findley has in "Treeless Eden" limned an admirable picture of this development; the foundation of the book is the influence on the character of the Californians of the fertile soil, of the newness of the country, of the splendid untouched natural resources, of the new forces stirring in America as she began after 1870 to take a foremost place in the family of nations...
...United States Army and Naval bases would not be given up to Philippine control, and that a practically prohibitive sugar tariff would be levied at once. There is hardly any question as to the justice of the Island objections to harboring American Army bases on their otherwise independent soil. Obviously, independence in such a case would be but a gesture of none too friendly diplomacy. The McDuffie Bill provides that these Army bases be relinquished and that the future status of the naval bases be the subject for discussion between the Philippine and American governments promptly following the Bill...
Moments in this red-lettered farmers' calendar escape the curious uncertainty which characterizes most of Hollywood's conscientious efforts to investigate the soil: gluttonous George Shaw asking his tired wife for another piece of pie; Jen Shaw coming out of the schoolhouse one winter afternoon, when Stan Janowski's sleigh is waiting. Heat Lightning (Warner). This small investigation of goings-on at a desert gas-station is sharper and more honest than most one-room melodramas manufactured in Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route...
...which has felt intensely the impact or modern social unheavals, and simultaneously enjoyed the revival of rich and ancient national culture. As an artist he has profited by the great achievement of James Joyce in creating a mature racial conscience, while as an individual he is closer to the soil than Joyce ever was. The stripped and ungainly realism frequent in contemporary novels is not forced on a man with such a background. "A Nest of Simple Folk" is a profound and beautifully written book in itself, and leaves one with the expectation of even finer things to be written...