Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all men, coal miners expect to die some day. Unlike all men, coal miners also expect that an abnormally high proportion of their number will not die in bed.* Last week death came to 45 miners caught by an explosion of natural gas and rock dust in the Red Jacket Coal Co. mine near Grundy, in southwestern Virginia...
Picked for Jezebel's heroine was an actress largely overlooked in Gone With the Wind's nationwide parlor-casting bees, but one who came close to what the public seemed to want in Scarlett. That actress was Bette Davis-tempestuous, intense, compact & casehardened, with diamond dust in her voice, bug eyes lit with a cold blue glitter, and as wide a dramatic range as any cinemactress in the business...
Suddenly last fall one studio took the offensive. Dust-collecting for nearly a year on the shelves at Warner Brothers had been Owen Davis' play Jezebel, a drama of moss-hung New Orleans, spiced with the vixenry of a high-spirited, imperious Southern belle...
Robert Taylor she "can't see for dust." Of the relative merits of Boston and New Haven audiences she said, "I love them all; they all pay $3.30." Miss Wing thought that New Haven audiences were "rather rowdyish and full of stage-door Johnnies...
...beginning in the worm's shape, ending with the worm, pullulating, multiplying, and festering, conglomerating their littleness, spreading and aggrandizing it under the huge sun, joining together in a love that is the joining of the cloven maggot, engendering little hopes, little fears, throwing up small sprays of dust, spray by spray, till they have made a universe of dust." In vigorous poetic passages like this, I Live Under a Black Sun sometimes produces a darkly exciting agitation-something like the distress of chickens when an unseen hawk is overhead, or like the uneasiness of readers...