Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With special police patrolling the streets and the city on the verge of martial law, oldtime white residents of Honolulu well knew out of what black and bitter soil this latest crime had grown, but for political or commercial reasons they kept their mouths shut. The childlike, romantic Hawaiian of pure blood, they privately explained, has almost disappeared in a polyglot breed of Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese. Most U. S. whites on the islands look down socially upon this hybrid population. While socially inferior, the brown-skinned "Hawaiian" is a full-fledged U. S. citizen with political rights...
Maamme! Maamme! Our Fatherland! Oh, sacred word sound high! As on our fathers' soil we stand, No hill nor vale, nor sunny strand, Nor fertile plain 'neath southern sky Can with our bleak North...
...Dresden: "It seems to me as if, in my hopes regarding Germany and her future, my patience would very soon be exhausted, and that I might then repent not having long ago confided the seeds of the ideas embodied in my art creations to a more fruitful and promising soil. An association would have to be formed which would offer me, upon conditions of my permanent settlement there and as an indemnity once for all for my exertions, a sum of one million dollars, of which one-half would be placed at my disposal upon taking up my residence...
...very moment I put my foot on the friendly and hospitable soil of France, I told the French Government: 'I am not a conspirator.' ... If my people want me back now or at any future time, I shall go back and serve my country in the same way I did since I was 16. . . . Please understand it clearly once and forever: I AM A KING, NOT A CONSPIRATOR...
...Perhaps we can help to stamp it out by not allowing it to soil any good Western Union paper...