Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also extended to the battle-scarred brethren was the privilege of dropping cigarette ash in the, typewriter mechanism and in general copying the editorial effort to look like a combination of Brit Reed and Hildy Johnson, Clark Kent as a prototype was no more...
Last week, the Constitution moved, lock, stock & stuffed duck from its cluttered, turreted brick building to a new, $1,500,000, streamlined, aluminum-trimmed plant. The new building was, roughly, Georgia-shaped. To prepare the staff for the shock of a clean newsroom with wastebaskets and ash trays, a quiet memo was issued: "We are going to have the desks dusted every night...
...Christmas drew near, the voices of carolers, not all of them blending harmoniously, were raised across the land. Office parties left a backwash of glasses and overflowing ash trays on desks and filing cabinets. In Boston, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sent out three wagonloads of oats, carrots and apples for the city's work horses. Sweet but harassed rich girls prepared to make holiday debuts at Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club, San Francisco's Palace Hotel, Baltimore's Alcazar, and in many another big-city ballroom. Boise, Idaho, a city...
Sparkplug of Youth Films is muscular, ash-blond Rev. Borland P. Dryer, 36, a boy evangelist grown up, who spent his youth traveling with such famous spellbinders as Billy Sunday and Uldine Utley, later studied at several universities. One day Dryer faced the fact that more people were going to movie houses than to churches. "We were missing the boat," he says. "The visual image was here to stay...
Then they entered the house in dignity, fanned by two boys with special fans of deer hair. One sannyasi carried a scepter of gold, five feet long, two inches thick. He sprinkled Nehru with holy water from Tanjore and drew a streak in sacred ash across Nehru's forehead. Then he wrapped Nehru in the pithambaram and handed him the golden scepter. He also gave Nehru some cooked rice which had been offered that very morning to the dancing god Nataraja in south India, then flown by plane to Delhi...