Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only indications as to its where-abouts during the time it was lost were a speedometer reading which showed a 32-mile trip, and a lipaticked cigarette buit in the ash tray. Cambridge police had previously predicted that the car would come back unharmed...
...middle of the living room there is a big table covered with oilcloth. On it are piled his manuscripts, books and papers; the children's toys; his wife's sewing, chipped teacups; dirty spoons, knives and forks; lamps, an inkwell, glasses, clay pipes, tobacco ash; in a word, it is the most indescribable muddle. . . . One's eyes are so blinded by coal and tobacco smoke that it is like walking around in a cave until one becomes accustomed to it and objects begin to loom up through the fog. . . . Sitting down is a dangerous business...
...times to the great popular Hindu festivals, sternly condemned the orgiastic frenzy and the exhibitions of extreme asceticism. Now, however, Gandhi belonged not only to the ages but to the people, and India celebrated his last rites in its own un-Gandhian fashion. At water's edge, the ash-laden urn was transferred to the white (for mourning) superstructure of an army "duck." With eight other ducks, it churned noisily into the river, while army planes swooped overhead, dropping flowers on the cortege. On the shore, army guns boomed a salute of 79 salvos for Gandhi...
Until 4 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, stocky (5 ft. 8 in.), moderate-drinking (scotch) Alton Ochsner, a bouncing 51, carried out his carnival duties. As. Rex, King of the Carnival, he wore a white satin suit, high white kid boots and bejeweled cloth-of-gold robes. But at 7:30 a.m.-an hour and a quarter later than usual-he was on the job in white surgeon's gown at Prytania and Aline Streets. Dr. Ochsner's real job is director of Ochsner Clinic...
...Shrova Tuesday to you) came over from France in the old days, and now all kinds of parades, Nalls ("rety formal" says Miss Fennsbaker), and singing in the strects starts happening as early as Christmas time. The whole thing's to keep you going throught Lent, which starts today-Ash Wednesday-and everyone in New Orleans had to immask at tonight last night and head for church...