Word: uprootedness
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October brought the rooting season. On college football fields, great numbers of burly U. S. males flung their weight about, uprooted one another in scrimmages, ran, shouted, grunted, "rooted" punts. In grandstands, throngs of less burly males and galaxies of highly agitated females "rooted" vocally.
In the sixty years since that time the elements that comprize the new stage have been slowly crystalizing. So long as the negro remained in the South, traditional submission to the status quo delayed any acute outcropping of racial ill feeling. But the World War uprooted the negro's traditional...
Democratic Rule, 1913-1921. Economic life quickened; no corruption; privilege uprooted; great leadership in a great war; reduction of tariff taxes; creation of Federal Trade Commission, Farm Loan system, Secretariat of Labor; Federal Reserve system; enactment of more effective, constructive, remedial legislation than the Republicans had done in a generation...
Almost five years ago, while the soldiers who had fought in a war to end wars rested upon their victorious arms, and while the leaders of the world were inspired as never before with a consciousness of international brotherhood and an enthusiasm for universal peace based upon universal justice; personal...
This is merely an index of how this nation is penny-wise and pound-foolish. New York city is having an epidemic of robberies such as it has not had for years. More than once recently a longshoremens strike has tied up ocean travel. New York has been spending money...