Word: taproots
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...baby, nobody attending her during hours of labor; nobody by her side then except that man who walked yonder in the war valley where the poppies somehow give off a new blood color to the taproot and make it redder by virtue of the selfsame blood that gave this country birth. And this morning she is there in that manger. Why, she has been feeding all of her babies on oatmeal soup for a week, please God, with the aid of her husband while she lies there without any sort of comfort whatever...
...desuetude, modern educators have sought vainly after the cause and cure of growing religious antipathy among undergraduates. In the fervid scramble after mental and physical achievement, the college has gone blind to things spiritual. With this in mind, the CRIMSON has delved deep until now the "cause causinge," the taproot of the evil lies exposed. By thorough investigation it has been ascertained that the cushions in the chapel pews, unduly hard and cold in the early morning, have enforced many absences. In fact, students of poor physique must needs forego the privilege of morning worship by reason of cramps...
...Story. At 24, Lou Witt was without a taproot. Having drifted from New Orleans to Texas to Paris to Biarritz, Vienna, Palermo, Rome, London, she was as native to one bit of geography as another. Nor could people, any person, hold her. She saw through them, always had her own way. Her best lover, impetuous, paint-daubing Rico, she had subjugated. Now he was merely the futile, shallow Sir Henry Carrington, would-be London society painter, her husband. Their relation had paled to nervous platonism, Lou doubting there was a man who could think quickly and far enough, love largely...