Word: dust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salon no jesting cynic twinkles at Haig and Haig across a mahogany bar. La Mariniere is a prison ship and she has no room for jests. But there are cynics on her passenger lists, men who have tasted the wine of life and have eaten its dust, men outward bound for French Guiana and hell...
...young and smiling faces a-top banjos which some said had been heard in Spokane stopped beaming at the bevy of upturned faces--the Pathe news of the Leviathan--and then Bebe the inimitable, the exquisite--the comedienne is off in a cloud of dust, traffic cops, contortionists--and who hasn't wanted to break a big vase--or be a million dollars out and five millions...
...least among criticisms of contemporary commercialism are protests against America's fiagrant and immoderate use of bill boards and posters. Despised by the aesthetic, condemned by the nature loving, frowned upon by the "better" minds of press and pulpit, they continue to defy anything and everything but the dust of their neighboring roads...
...Unchastened Woman. Ten years ago this endeavor was a brisk success as played by the accomplished Emily Stevens. Just now it does not seem so brisk. There is an air about it of dust disturbed. People do not like so many lumps of coincidence in their play these days. There are complications about smuggling and infidelity, and some excellent acting. Violet Kemble Cooper and Morgan Farley have the leads...
Here is her trouble when Brand and Emma reach her in response to her summons: Elliott is days late in returning. Something has surely happened, probably to the boy. Wracked already, she is bitter with hate for Elliott when he does appear, dry-mouthed, caked with dust, to say he has lost Jackie in the trackless, beast-run hunting veld, lost him completely. There is a nightmare of searching. Mary's baby is born, prematurely but alive, in a desert railway shed. The boy is not found. Back on the farm, Mary's hatred for Elliott shades into insane belief...