Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jauntily in his cocky walk, a long, specially made cigar crunched in his teeth. He wore his Trinity House uniform of dark blue, the effect of its eight brass buttons slightly marred by the grey marks where he had hastily brushed away the little mound of silver grey cigar ash that collects on his stomach as he sits slouched down.* His zippered ankle-high shoes were half unzipped. He handed a letter to Franklin Roosevelt, said: "I have the honor, Mr. President, to hand you a letter from His Majesty the King...
with human nature, accept the situation. Many military planes have ash trays in them. But as for crack Test Pilot Stanley Umstead, if Reader Epstein had scrutinized his picture closely (see cut], she might have seen that his cigar has no ash on it. Umstead smokes a good deal, but often sticks an unlighted cigar in his mouth and simply gnaws...
Socks. Somewhere in England, Sapper Archie Campbell of Montreal went to his quartermaster for a new pair of socks. Attached to them was a paper saying they had been knit by Mrs. A. M. Campbell, 462 Ash Ave., Point St. Charles-his wife...
...Freshmen the following year, who hand them down to the House teams, who throw them away. As the leaves begin to fall and the air becomes crisp, the House teams will charge into their plays with elbows protruding from their sleeves, and shoes fit only for the ash barrel...
...Ash-blond, store-clerkish, 34-year-old Phil Dike, son of a California real-estate promoter, started his art career by imitating his grandmother, who used to paint reproductions of picture postcards. At 21, he won a medal in a local watercolor exhibition, shipped off to Manhattan, where he studied with oldtime U. S. Realist George Luks. After a spell in Paris and Italy, mostly sitting in cafés and talking, Dike returned to Southern California, settled down to teaching...