Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started now. Forget that hollow stomach feeling. This is a football in the air; your anticipation is over; the future has become the present. This is why your rib felt like it was cracked last week. It's why you sweated and studied and dreamed. It is the dust and monotony of a practice field. It is the soggy, moldy smell of the locker room. And remember, that ball is coming down now. Ahead are eleven men in Green who will try to stop one man, but ten men in Crimson will help that one man. They are your friends...
...stoops to burlesque, complete with striptease. Then the police raid it, board it up, leave it grimy and forgotten. At the end the fabulous invalid is once more sitting up in bed: a band of young hopefuls, led by someone who might be Orson Welles, sweep out the dust and start rehearsing...
...Hell, yes, I do. Why not?" Surest Way. To Secretary of Agriculture Wallace AAA has recently come to stand for ache, agony and anguish. In defense of AAA he has argued that present low prices are due more to bumper weather (even the Dust Bowl bloomed this year) than to any serious defect in the Act. But in spite of the most far reaching crop control laws ever enacted, all three major U. S. crops are in trouble. Wheat, with a near-record crop of 940,000,000 bushels and a whopping 300.000,000 bushel carryover in prospect for next...
...material evidence of modern civilization should be left to ruin by world war or other cataclysm, archeologists thou sands of years hence might find the remains of skyscrapers, subways, concrete highways, pottery, glass, jewels, coins, some tools, the debris of machinery. The written records would have crumbled to dust, and the archeologists might conclude that the inhabitants of the present world were half-literate savages gifted with great engineering ability. But if future diggers explored the broad Mesopotamian valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris, in what is now Iraq, they would find thousands of clay tablets bearing the cuneiform writing...
...nostalgia the innovations which earned Ritz's unchallenged fame as the "king of hotelkeepers." Herself a member of a family of famed hotelkeepers, Madame Ritz is by second nature discreet. In her account, the closets of the Ritz hotels are as free of skeletons as they are of dust. Her only intimate anecdotes are those which point to her husband's subtle tact, his priestlike devotion to his guests' whims. (According to his wife Ritz invented the slogan: "The customer is always right.") Such is the anecdote of a water closet specially altered for Edward...