Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all cinemas from the Socialist Soviet Republic, "Soil is Thirsty" bludgeons the great truths of the class war into the consciousness of the audience; the suffering Turkmen in Turkestan are rescued from their Capitalistic overlord by five young Russian engineers. With this simple salvation of the proletariat for a theme, the plot manages to create a blood-and-thunder milieu, filled with hurricanes, dynamiting, death, and a happy ending. The Turkmen are virtual slaves of the cruel heavy, a Bey with a sneer and black waxed mustachios; the Musselmen laboriously draw water from deep wells for the garden...
...traveler lays aside his attitudes, and adopts those of his hosts, as he adopts their language. When the American student is willing to do this perhaps he will be able to absorb some of the maturity of the people whom he studies, and transfer it to his native soil...
...since then only rarley become actively involved in struggles that concern the "outside world." The National Student League, however, was born of the depression, among the students of our large city colleges where economic pressure on the undergraduates is strongest. Harvard has proved so far to be barren soil for this radical plant. The American university man is in general apathetic in activity of social reform, reconstruction, and revolution when compared to his less well padded European or Asiatic brother...
...Mother's Day (May 8) in Arlington National Cemetery, the Gold Star Mothers honored the Unknown Soldier and the Unknown Soldier's Mother. Schoolchildren threw soil from all the States. France and Canada around the roots of a small white birch to be known as the Unknown Soldier's Mother's Tree. Austrian-born Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, eight times a mother, eleven times a grandmother, twice a great-grandmother, sang "Taps." Secretary of War Hurley declaimed: "The American mother gave to the nation its soul...
...medicine, where else can such icy voiced and tendril fingered experts exist as those of Austria; so Bathelmess becomes Muller, and Richard, Karl. And thus before a background of beer steins, rambling stucco farmhouses, operating rooms and music boxes, Karl Muller develops as the boy who loves the soil but is forced to become a surgeon. Complication after complication is thrown in to keep awake a sleepy audience, but the chief attraction is better than average photography, which takes advantage of every opportunity for unique angles and views of the unconnected material. And while the supporting cast perspires through...