Word: ashed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...beautiful trash basket or refuse receptacle to be presented to the city for placing at strategic points about the streets. Stoutly Acting Chairman Edward Henry Lewinski Corwin of the Committee of Twenty denied the imputation of New York papers that the contest was for the purpose of creating the Ash Can Beautiful...
...sixth revision. Domestic, shy, Joyce rarely leaves home except for the opera or to dine at the famed Trianon Restaurant. Poor most of his life, he is now subsidized by an anonymous Englishwoman. He dresses neatly, always wears green ties, sports heavy rings on his fingers, carries an ash-plant cane which he twirls and twirls. Timid, he fears dogs and thunderstorms, likes cats; a short "beard covers the scar where a dog bit him 43 years ago. He has very small feet, of which he is proud. Well-known to newspapermen, Author Joyce has never been interviewed. (Author Djuna...
There was, of course, nothing literally new, even in the year 1079, about the stretch of timberland, oak, ash and thorn, patched with open spaces of bog and heath, between the Solent, Southampton Water and the Avon. William the Conquerer only called it "New Forest" because it was connected with a new idea of his. Seeing how the farms of Hampshire, unrolling like green quilts, were slowly pushing away the woods, he set New Forest aside as a place for trees to grow and noblemen to hunt. For a long time any rogue caught killing the king's deer...
...Gazette quarrel was settled by compromise last week. To discipline the recalcitrant Press, the storekeepers considered publishing their own Shopping News. But merchants know that such a paper, now found upon the doormats of Washington, Cleveland and other cities, makes dull reading for housewives, is frequently hurled into the ash can by husbands. And the Press, last week, still refused to budge...
...stones," the U. S. Weather Bureau's William Jackson Humphreys coined to emphasize how technically impure is the air man breathes. Always in the atmosphere are bits of rock, vegetable fibre, litter, salt (over oceans), sulphuric acid (from soft coal chimneys and volcanoes), nitric acid (from lightning), meteoritic ash. The bronchial tubes get rid of most of such debris with almost no harm to the body...