Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that this symphony was prefaced by an "elaborate pronouncement." May I quote what Mr. Harris actually had to say about his symphony's relationship to "life, destiny and the U.S. soil": "I hoped to express qualities of our people which our popular dance music, because of its very nature, cannot reveal. Our people are more than pleasure-loving. We also have qualities of heroic strength-determination-will to struggle-faith in our destiny. We are possessed of a fierce driving power-optimistic, young, rough and ready-and I am convinced that our mechanistic age has not destroyed an appreciation...
...verb "to mugg" apparently stems from the dank soil of 19th Century prisons, where "mugger" was synonymous with footpad-"one of the wretched horde who haunt the street at midnight to rob drunken men." Its meaning, as given by the American Thesaurus of Slang: robbery with violence. In New York City muggers usually attack from behind if possible, throwing one arm around the victim's neck, while the assistant muggers frisk the victim...
...Wednesday, March 31, there will be a tour of the Harvard yard for all the wives of men in Engineering 270 or 260 and in the Army Soil Engineers. The group will leave from Phillips Brooks House at 2:30, and after a tour of the College will go to the Window Shop for tea. the afternoon's program will be under the direction of Mrs. E. Leon Chaffee...
...Rumania. But through the years of war and prewar depression the rest of the world changed in its view of what it wanted from the U.S. It no longer wanted only the wealth that U.S. industry could produce. It no longer wanted American builders only to imitate on foreign soil the kind of machinery that was indigenous to the U.S. It wanted the essential secret of U.S. enterprise, the quality within it that brought forth on the continent a new nation, a new birth of liberty, and with them a new wealth beyond the richest visions of the old. Thus...
...Marine Corporal Barney Ross, back from Guadalcanal with a few shrapnel wounds, back to Kaye, the showgirl he married shortly before he went off to war. Off the gangplank, he got down on his hands & knees, kissed the ground. "This I vowed to do if ever I saw American soil again," he explained gravely; "sometimes out there we're not so sure. . . ." Clutching a native-made cane decorated with "real Jap teeth," he told about his blistering nightlong battle in a shell hole (TIME, Dec. 14), described his exhibition bout with a native champ. "It was murderous," said Corporal...