Word: dust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back stretch, faster, faster, faster. Fifty thousand people rose to watch them finish, those eight swift-galloping horses, seven of America's best against the best of France. Into the home stretch they swept, brown and black bodies, flashing colored silks, rising, falling, tearing through their own mad dust-cloud...
...concatenations of stupendous events. For better or for worse, Turkey became a republic, a midget of a state compared to its former self; all the old panoplies of government were thrown overboard. The Sultan-Calif fled for his life. A new Calif arose; but the Sultanate was ground to dust by the puissant heel of Democracy. It was to be only a matter of time before the sole of the same foot was to crush the Califate, the holy office of the Successor to the Prophet. No wonder there was turmoil in Islam...
Died. Charlotte Mignon ("Lotta") Crabtree, 77, famed actress (retired); in Boston. She began her career in a Nevada camp town where, after a hostile reception, she so won the hearts of the proud miners that they are said to have thrown nuggets of gold, bags of gold dust, at her feet. When she appeared in Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, admirers tossed her their watches and chains, tied up in handkerchiefs. She owned the Hotel Brewster in which she died. Her fortune, estimated at $4,000,000, was largely left to charitable organizations...
Having shaken the U. S. dust off his feet (TIME, Sept. 29), Lord Renfrew set foot on the soil of Canada...
...There is no difference between Coolidge and Davis. Senator Wheeler properly and correctly terms them the 'gold dust twins.' A moment's thought will convince every man and woman that they can get no relief from their present oppressive burdens from either, and a vote for a change?a new broom, so to speak ?is a necessity...