Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their energy, ability, and enterprise can be of great influence in moulding the spirit of the class. On the other hand, a committee carelessly elected, composed of dull and lazy members, will soon become a body of no mark or likelihood dedicated to the purchase of magazines and ash trays for the common room, and little more. Wherefore it behooves the members of the Class of 1929 to realize the importance of todays' elections and to ponder carefully when they mark their ballots in today's elections...
...window, advertised in glaring posters the ease with which he extracted molars, eyeteeth. A rabble, styled by approving officials as "a group of students," questioned patients of Islas Escandon, then advanced upon the quarters of this quack, drove him forth, shoveled his 400,000 teeth upon an ash-heap...
...weeks adorned the President's desk was steadily being denuded of its contents, noted the presence of a wooden bear with jointed limbs on the desk, a nickel-plated key to a hospital city, a seashell, and a model electric locomotive* a row of reference books, an ash tray, which usually . . . has in it six or more white paper cigar holders, with quill mouth pieces, 'a matutinal bouquet, a pencil rack with ten sharpened pencils, a row of mother-of-pearl push buttons. Another found that the President never took off his suit coat while at work...
...During President Harding's regime, desk trinkets included: an ash tray on which stood a miniature Scotch golfer in knickers with two life-sized golf bal's at his feet, samples of shingles, little cowbells, a picture of his mother...
...Zorro. Master, this time, of the Australian stock whip, with which he flicks the ash from a cigaret, disarms a swordsman, climbs a balcony, tears a marriage license in two, Douglas Fairbanks is himself again. Fascinating, agile Spanish hero, Don Cesar clears himself of the charge of murdering an Archduke, wins the lovely Dolores de Muro (Mary Astor), plays the double part of father and son in a battle against 15. The picture is photographically perfect, splendidly cast, full of thrills...