Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportune appearance of a cigar with a long undisturbed ash...
...realization of their love which came too late-but not too late for a still later fleeting consummation. Consuelo tells of another dazzling woman whose honor-and the physical well-being of whose illicit suitor-were saved by the opportune appearance of a cigar with a long, undisturbed ash. The Romance of Iris Poole is the tale of Red Antony and his brother Roger, of the revenge of Antony upon Roger, whom he hated even as he admired him. Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian, Armenian) is reported...
...stock yards, and Boston for its beans, some degree of urban pride was possible; but now with Philadelphia hailed for its underworld, Washington for its baseball team, Chicago for its murderers, and--worst of all--Boston for its cake eating, Civil Pride must hide its head beneath the ash heap. One can forgive the other cities but never Boston--just entitled The Greatest Cake Eating Center in the World...
...great ash tree smelling of fairies and moonlight...
...Brooklyn, a Filipino (Pancho Villa) won a decision from a Welshman (Frankie Ash) and retained the flyweight (116 pound) boxing championship of the world. The brute strength of Villa failed to crush utterly the clever Ash, frail, skinny, anemic "with arms like pipe-stems and legs like reeds." Though Villa got the decision, Ash got the glory. Villa hewed and hacked, charged, struck blindly. In the second round he opened a cut on Ash's lip; later the blood flowed from the same wound. But Ash, with faultless foot work, danced lightly out of Villa's reach. Only...