Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author cannot be dismissed as an intemperate tyro. A doctor himself, his writing, until July 1930, was confined to medical subjects (Dust-Inhalation by Haematite Miners, First Aid in Coal Mines); he has practiced in South Wales, has been down more than 500 coal mines. His first novel (Hatter's Castle; TIME, July 20. 1931), a gloomy lengthy melodrama, was a surprise best seller. In neither of his professions has Dr. Cronin paid much attention to the rules. To the lay reader the "cut-shop" (medical jargon ) in The Citadel may seem tedious and overdone: but to many...
...room. Very little had been accomplished when the cycad-lovers arrived, trailed by the President of the university and his fuming committee. It was a little difficult to appear dignified and interested and at the same time keep their morning coats and striped trousers out of the inch-thick dust while the Prince and Wieland continued their ardent and interminable conversation. His Royal Highness even demanded to see a particular specimen that had been filed in the jam-packed basement. Eventually President Angell persuaded the Prince to return to the chore of meeting 200 or so of New Haven...
McIntyre & Heath were famed among stage folk not only as great troupers but as great pals. When young Jim McIntyre met young Tom Heath in San Antonio in 1874, both had the dust of several trouping years in their nostrils. McIntyre had specialized in buck-&-wing. Heath sang. They were both in need of a partner. They hit it off from the start, learned to settle occasional differences by flipping a coin. By 1880 they had reached Manhattan, did so well on the Bowery that they moved uptown to Tony Pastor's at the unheard-of figure...
...gallery to the city of Sacramento, which later acquired the mansion and for 50 years faithfully mowed the grass on the Crocker lawn. Curator of the gallery during all that time was an easy-going character named William Franklin Jackson, who let old Judge Crocker's paintings gather dust while he painted California landscapes...
...succeeded by slight, handsomely greying Harry Noyes Pratt, onetime editor, art student, poet (Mother of Mine & Other Verse, 1918) and director of a historical museum in Stockton, Calif. Director Pratt's first purchase was a vacuum cleaner, with which he took up two and one-half pounds of dust in his own room alone. Next thing he did was to clean and space the Crocker paintings, which had been jammed on the leaking walls like one-cent stamps on a special delivery letter. Then Director Pratt put on his old clothes and braved what he felt sure...