Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...folk whose chief sorrow now is that age debars them from public service. . . . Lenitives are available and among the best of them is wisely chosen reading and rereading. . . . Some readers will find an inexhaustible solace in Sir Walter Scott; others will feel that Thackeray has for too long gathered dust upon their shelves. ... In the months to come many old favorites may be rehabilitated, and enthusiastic readers may rediscover or learn for the first time the magic of Tennyson, the robust courage of Browning, the thoughtfulness and lyric poetry of Landor, the observant accuracy of Crabbe...
...Poland's peasants. There are 20,000,000 of them, 5,000.000 of whom are continually unemployed. Few can read, some in Galicia do not know that the Emperor Franz Joseph is dead and that they are no longer Austrian subjects. To them salt is like gold dust, bread like caviar. But last week peasant boys were stolidly shuffling to mobilization centres, farmers were sending their only horses to bolster the country's cavalry-minded army...
...with Caruso as its biggest name, was doing more than half the industry's business to the tune of more than $50,000,000 annually. But by 1925 that figure had dwindled nearly 50%, and the heaps of records in Victor's stockrooms had begun to gather dust. By 1932 Victor had passed from the hands of the bankers to RCA, where it became a horse's thumb among RCA's booming radio projects. Victor's competitors did no better. The 1932 gross for the entire industry reached a scant...
...through beyond, lighting up a distant pasture. Observed Painter Curry: "Building the barbed wire fences closed forever the open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted in the standard Curry colors-reds for Oklahoma's dust and soil, gold for sunlight, green for far-off fields of grain. Curry considers them much finer than his Department of Justice murals, finished...
...turntables, a microphone, 10,000 records and two telegraph receiving machines. He gets anywhere from 150 to 250 request telegrams each morning. Most come from Manhattan's metropolitan area, but some regulars click in from far-away Florida and Ohio. Once Walter Winchell, whose favorite selection is Star Dust, sent Stan a 794-word telegram. One mysterious regular, Little Caesar, has sent as many as 20 telegrams in one morning, usually hailing Stan with "Hiya Skipper" and requesting selections to be dedicated to "Gloria, who is as sweet as the days are long." Stan reads them all, palavers...