Word: brush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kingdom of Jugoslavia,* motored gaily last week through the ominously famed city of Sarajevo. There he saw a chimney sweep-in the Balkans an omen of good luck. Smiling, His Majesty stopped the royal motor, offered the chimney sweep 100 dinars ($1.76) for two straws from his grimy brush. Astonished and suspicious, the chimney sweep refused to sell even one straw. Outraged, the royal chauffeur revealed his master's identity: "Louse of a chimney sweep! Do you defy your King...
...University 150-pound crews had an up stream brush of less than half a mile in which the fourth shell was first and the second also led the regular first combination...
...angel and a Virgin have gone to Detroit to live. Created by the chaste, cloistered brush of Fra Angelico in the 15th Century, they have come down the years unblemished, staying long in England and more lately in Manhattan. Their two panels form an "Annunciation" that is unquestionably the finest of Fra Angelico's work to be found in the U. S. today. Their former owner, Carl W. Hamilton, received a quarter of a million for them both from Edsel Ford, who, sailing for Europe just then, left them hanging in public for all Detroit...
...Spanish priests, after the conquest of the country in the sixteenth century, did all they could to stamp out the old religion and in a large measure succeeded. Down through the entire Yucatan the old cults have ceased to exist, but in the brush of Guatemala a few traces of them have survived the Eurobeen encroachments of the last four centuries...
...secured so far follows: Honorable J. Stitt Wilson, Professor Henry H. Tweedy, Dr. Robert E. Speer, Francis P. Miller, Powers Hapgood, Henry P. Van Duson, Dr. George R. Baker, S. Wirt Wiley, John W. Macdonald, Clifford Brown, Professor S. Ralph Harlow, Sidney Levett, Morgan Noyes, Kingsley Birge, John R. Brush, Allan K. Chalmers, and William D. Barnes...