Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public Service. A $500 gold medal was awarded to the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune for its news reports and editorials which started a movement for self-help among victims of the dust bowl. To the Edmonton (Alberta) Journal went a special bronze plaque for leadership in defense of a free press in the Province of Alberta...
...Rogers (real name: Leonard Slye). What makes his debut notable is that the song he sings is of social significance. On the sere cinema range ridden by twangy Roy Rogers no grazing buffalo roam. Most of the time the Western stars are blotted out by great, rolling clouds of dust. In the discouraging words of Dust, Cowboy Rogers laments...
...Dust, dust, must...
...Wayland, followed by their inevitable softball games, of mad rushes under Massachusetts Avenue in pursuit of the 150's with sudden death lurking in every whitewalled wheel, of tandem bicycle rides in Brookline, of lengthy collateral assignments for History 1, of warm evenings on Mt. Auburn Street, of dust and bats and paper cups on the ball field, and of well-meant oaths of fealty to some sweet, starry-eyed blonde about to be ravished by the iniquitous practices of the coming debutante season...
...Florencio Molina Campos. The calendars which Artist Campos has been turning out every year for the Compañia Argentina de Alpargatas are highly prized rarities in the U. S. and may well be collectors' items when the Compañia's last shoes are worn to dust. Last week this distant reputation materialized in Manhattan in the form of an intent, sardonic, cigar-waving Latin and about 40 paintings, to be displayed this week at the English Book Shop in Artist Campos' first show...