Word: ashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residue of ash when youth escapes...
...Shamrock V back to England when she made her record-breaking voyage. It is expected that the other entertainer will be a prestidegitator of no mean repute, although the Chairman of the Smoker committee, R. A. Kidder, Jr. '35 did not officially confirm this rumor. At the Smoker ash trays with the inscription 'Class Smoker, 1935' will be given out, along with tabacco, but there is no indication that there will be an informal supper served afterwards as was once planned...
...Newark, N. J. one day last week a wrinkled old Negro with a fuzzy grey head sat on an ash can on Market Street, his bushy grey beard on his chest, one leathery hand extended for alms. Arrested, he was taken to the station house. The desk sergeant began the routine of booking him. Name? John Torthi. Birthplace? Lynchburg, Va. Date? June 4, 1824. The desk sergeant looked up astonished. Was this old fellow 107 years old? The Negro nodded his head, explained that he had been a slave nearly 40 years before being freed by the Proclamation of Emancipation...
...most famed of U. S. civic celebrations. New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival is for local socialites a formal, exclusive occasion; for merchants and hotelmen, a golden harvest; for visitors and the man-in-the-street one good long party. Last week's party began six days before Ash Wednesday. Through packed streets lumbered float after gaudy float bearing the cinematic tableaux of the Krewe of Momus. Red, green, yellow and purple flares dimmed street lights, sent choking fumes up toward windows from which thousands of heads leaned. At the Municipal Auditorium the parade halted, maskers moved from floats...
...removal of the trees yesterday, an ash and an elm, was quite a large job for the Park department, one of whose duties is to take care of all trees on the city streets. Both trees, estimated by the foreman on the job to be 75 years of age, had huge roots extending under the street, which had to be severed...