Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon a time those words made U. S. bugles blow, flags wave, men march. Last week the bugles were still; the flags gathered dust in museums; many of those marching men had made a separate peace. And into another sort of grave-the pigeonholes of diplomacy-went the principle for which U. S. blood made red puddles in French mud 21 years...
...Navy (along with the French) have not undertaken any great decisive action at the front or on the seas (see p. 31). But even if and when they do, even if some great attack should sweep the Germans out of the ocean, some air armada lay Berlin in the dust, some huge offensive run the Reich's soldiers all the way through Prussia and chase Herr Hitler off his cliff at Berchtesgaden, it may well be that these are not the deeds of which Britain will be proudest in World War II. It may be that the greatest victories...
...Fight for Peace shared this much with great art-though it was unable to tell its audience what to do for peace, it let them see with their own eyes what Poet T. S. Eliot meant when he wrote: "I will show you fear in a handful of dust...
...room No. 1037 on the south side of a massive, red-brick building in St. Paul last week charwomen were dusting and cleaning and bustling about. On the north side of the ugly old office building, in No. 1030 (separated by no more than a locked door and a corridor from 1037), more charwomen were kicking the dust and dirt around. No. 1037 had been vacant since Jan. 24 for lack of a president of the Great Northern Railway. No. 1030 had been vacant since Sept. 4 for lack of a president of Northern Pacific. This week both rooms were...
...miniature wife Dolly ("the little woman who has been my right hand man") spend their winters in Manhattan, their summers in New Mexico. Liked by everyone are Artist Sloan's portrayals of city life with its socks down: lean cats scavenging in a snowy back yard, a dust storm on Fifth Avenue, scrubwomen in a library, girls on a roof drying their hair, men lined up at a bar. Less liked are the strange, bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched in red, green, black, with which he has stubbornly experimented for the past ten years...