Word: ashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lecture Hall for History 1 lectures, not enough light enters the old windows to make it adequate for a good examination room. The janitor will not allow people to wander over the building because he fears they may be careless enough to let some stray cigarette ash fall on her floors and set her in flame, but a moment of grace is granted for viewing her dusty roots. In the heat of the old basement one discovers the remains of the old laundry wringers, now rusty with age. There are stacks of chairs which once were the thrones of exuberant...
...Well, well, well, here you are!" was the loud greeting of the next President as he ground out his cigaret in an ash tray. "You've arrived just in time to see me sign the papers that commute the death sentence of one prisoner to life in Sing Sing and granting another condemned man a reprieve of three weeks...
...beat slowly, mournfully while the Hopi fast. In the morning the drumbeats quicken. Finally appear twelve priests, their bodies painted, their faces stained grotesquely. Heads down, they dance toward the door of the kiva, then back, then forward again until they halt before the door guarded by eight old, ash-smeared priests. There is a moment of silence and suspense. Then slowly the door is raised. Through it comes a painted Hopi holding a writhing rattlesnake in his teeth. The snake is held by the middle, head and tail dangling free. (Veteran carriers look down upon those who hold their...
...week that 6,565,641 sacks of coffee have been burned. It promised to burn by Jan. 1, 1933 a total of 18 million sacks each containing 132 Ib. of coffee. At approximately $6.50 per sack, $117,000,000 worth of coffee will have been turned to smoke and ash...
Modernist Architect William Lescaze showed a metal ash tray and a flower holder...