Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring, Art come creeping to Harvard Square. Janus-faced, she looks both before and behind. Looking ahead with the Surrealists, she surveys the works of the Conqueror Worm, when men in the morgue shall be all but ashes and the halibut on the table shall be all but dust. And harking back with Harkness, she emblazons the cravats of Cambridge with a new heraldry...
...armed with letters to four of the world's most potent men: Pope Leo XIII, William Gladstone, Otto von Bismarck, John Henry Cardinal Newman. They gave his international, political, social notions a tremendous push. To them, he recalls, he was just a brash young American ? "a speck of dust." But Butler talked right up to them, made them the nucleus of his enormous collection of friendships, to which, as he grew older, he has added almost every person of national or international importance...
...argument would be superficial. There are, Dr. Erskine points out, "a few ideas, a few problems which belong to all time." And it is with these problems that the universities should be most deeply concerned. Their task is to sift the vital knowledge of the ages from the dust of its dead framework...
...Hyde Park district. Because the 26th district had, with one exception, been doggedly Republican since the Civil War, he appeared to have a poor chance of winning. This chance seemed to be materially reduced when he set out to stump his rural constituency in a chicken-killing, dust-raising automobile. But the farmers liked his engaging smile, his direct easy way of talking. As much to his surprise as to anyone else's he was elected...
...cheek hones. Eskimo brunettes are just about as successful with the raspberry, rabbit's-ear pink, peach and natural-blonde. And when the women with a will and a head of hair like the Alabama crimson tide white-wash the freckles and lay on a coat of orange-peel dust they are ready for the brickyards union...