Word: soils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comedy of human nature would seem to require fine character-drawing, and this we have--in the first act. The mystic poet of the soil, Beem Sprattling, seeker after Truth in the subtract, follower of the "Oninvisible and the Onbeheord-of," keen admirer of "this fine pretty world," and frequent tenant of the county jail, is introduced with delightful effect. There are also the native flapper, Goldy, and her dangling swain, Roosh. A pleasing picture of the two old people, Lark Fiddler and Granny Maggot is finely drawn. Gilly Maggot and his scrawny, belligerent, and faithful wife, Mag, furnish excellent...
...through the Gallipoli campaign as a member of the Newfoundland Regiment, described the hardships of the expedition from first hand experience. "Ypres, considered the worst sector on the Western front, I later learned was a Paradise compared to Gallipoli. In the latter place we were handicapped by the adobe soil, in which only shallow ditches could be dug for shelter. These and our pith helmets were hardly protection against snipers and shrapnel...
...primitive animals, but a closer investigation led to the theory that they represented an attempt to sweep up the gathering debris. That such an attempt was ever made seems highly unlikely, and the theory, therefore, is probably unsound. Indeed, the report ventures to suggest that no disturbance of the soil structure should ever be permitted. For it seems probable that within a few years the whole mass of substance will have consolidated itself into a firm crust, entirely concealing the original flooring, and upon this surface the scuffle of feet and the scraping of chairs will be almost noiseless, much...
Those interested in big game hunting under the soil of Egypt, and in bringing their trophies home with them, met a preliminary reverse when the Egyptian government declared that no more finds should be taken out of the country; and a final blow when the Carnavon expedition had its excavating license revoked...
...than ours. The only inference is that over there they are "educated up" to it. The Englishman is brought up with the ambition to serve his government. A parliamentary life is the highest profession, with the result that in devoting himself to politics an Englishman is not required to "soil his hands...