Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those members of the Bourgeoisie who intend to dust off their full-dress clothes should leave them in dark clothes or, better still, sell them to those Jews who tragic in second-hand clothes," the Pepolo Di Trieste said...
...number of events that the book derives its absorbing interest, but from the way they are described and integrated. Mrs. Lindbergh keenly singles out the small but unusual details that make the story unmistakably real: "The were newspapers on the floor, French ones, old and yellowing, gritty with dust, their emphatic black headlines staring up at the ceiling as they had been staring ever since the old chief had left them there." Yet these are more than mere details, they all add something to the impression the author is trying to create. She goes on to say "and none...
...decided "what is right and good." To Paraguay the map makers awarded the lion's share of the area. Paraguay will get about three-quarters of the disputed Chaco Boreal, an area about the size of Missouri. Generally regarded as impassable swamp in winter and dry-as-dust desert in summer, the Chaco has long been held by Paraguay to be potentially a land of cattle raising, wheat and cotton growing...
Year ago, after Britain and France had commissioned the then Premier of Belgium, scholarly Paul van Zeeland, to make his now dust-gathering study of the economic obstacles to world trade, pleased King Leopold wrote his Premier, suggested an international economic institute...
Suez (Twentieth Century-Fox) adds to the list of such notable cinema disasters as the earthquake of San Francisco and the fire of In Old Chicago the spectacle of a howling zobah-hah in the Arabian desert. As cinematically reproduced, a zobah-hah is a combination of cyclone and dust storm, accompanied by squeals, floods, twilight and the expenditure of $250,000. In itself sufficient to make Suez rank as one of the major spectacles of the year, the zobah-hah is only an incident in the latest addition to the series of heroic-sized historical plays to which Producer...