Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Jan. 10, you. . . slur at old Joe Ransdell's whiskers. And why pick on poor little old Toombs County, Ga., when you have the whole state of Illinois right next door. Clean up your own front yard before digging in the ash can in our back yard. Get the beam out of your...
Like the outsides of the small bundles, the insides were all alike. At a five-&-ten-cent store Herman had purchased some six dozen nickel-plated ash trays. Commuters in that office building compared gifts going out on the 5:15. They showed their prizes to their wives; in voices trembling with affection they told the story of humble Herman and his Christmas spirit...
...Winnemucca, of extensive deposits of opals, those iridescent gems, glowing blue, green, yellow, pink and deep red, for which the world has previously depended chiefly upon mines in Hungary, Mexico, Honduras, Australia. Geologists reported that the stones had been formed after a petrified forest was prehistorically inundated by volcanic ash and lava. Made bold by successful recent raids on Nevada gold mines, bandits broke into a store of the gems laid away by prospectors, but soon found their precious loot turned to worthless dross in their hands. Softer than most gems, opals must be aged slowly in clay to permit...
...Europe. She hunted deer with the Emperor of Austria; won a running-deer shoot from Grand Duke Michael of Russia for $350. At an exhibition in England, five ruling monarchs were present. A man who was to rule as Wilhelm II of Germany, expressed a desire to have the ash removed from his cigaret by a bullet. Annie Oakley obliged. Queen Victoria sent her a signed photograph. Prince Edward (VII) of Wales presented her on the grounds of the London Gun Club, where she was the first woman ever allowed to shoot, and gave her a medal inscribed...
Other folks lose their resistance- in unhygienic surroundings, from exhaustive work (athletics included), from dusty occupations (mining, ash dumping, cotton handling, grinding, polishing), from unrelated diseases, from mental depression...