Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that when he was a stripling in high school he met the principal on the street one day, kept his hat on his head because the day was cold, was expelled for rudeness. Young Ivan got a job as an office clerk, rented twelve good acres of black soil, started experimenting with plants...
...actors. Relying on superb photography, a strapping fishwife named Maggie Dirrane (who acted as Flaherty's housemaid between scenes), a handsome child named Michael and a curly-haired fisherman known as Tiger King, the film shows the daily life of the Aran Islanders, their barren homes where garden soil must be gathered in baskets from crevices in the rock, their frail seagoing curraghs of tarred skins stretched over basketwork frames. High spot in the film is the harpooning of a 30-ft. basking shark by Tiger King & friends...
...longer despair, having taught the boys at least to buy a hat and keep it on the floor for fancy weekends. To be sure, brown hats don't soil as fast as gray. The Paris Garter people are launching with a wry smile their million-dollar "Attack on the barbarous challenge of nudism...
FROM THIS HILL LOOK DOWN?Elliott Merrick?Stephen Daye Press ($2). Sensitive, perceptive, accurate, slight, a picture of rural Vermont from the point of view of a city white-collar employe, broke and out of a job, who finds satisfaction by a return to the soil; a novel made up of short stories, by the author of True North...
Pagan Cults. That the German people were betrayed into Christianity by Emperor Charlemagne 1,100 years ago is a proposition only recently established by Dr. Rosenberg. Charlemagne represented an "alien principle" (Christianity) whereas the Saxons with whom he did battle were archetypal Nazis fighting for "blood and soil." Charlemagne slew 4,500 Saxons at Verden and there this spring Dr. Rosenberg had a monument of 4,500 stone blocks erected in their honor. Unmoved by twits from the Catholic press for rewriting history to suit his own beliefs, Dr. Rosenberg orated: "After, 1,000 years . . . the will...