Word: dust
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meantime, he had run for Vice President on the late Senator Robert Marion La Follette's Progressive ticket in 1924. His liberal zeal undimmed by defeat, he set about leading a Senatorial investigation of conditions in Pennsylvania coal fields. No legislation resulted, but plenty of dust was raised...
...give you, therefore, this information so far in advance that you may dust off your bifocals and add a restricting clause to pressing contracts. You never can tell when the boys from West Haverstraw will start undraping, or when Mrs. Coolidge will depart chastely from Northampton. That sturdy village will present henceforth even greater inducements than in the past. And it will be interesting to see to what extremes the earnest debaters will carry their persuasions. We don't want to discourage these worthy fellows, but, personally we prefer to leave any experiments in the realm of nudity...
...tour four months, they would have found the height of the Washington Monument unchanged but its appearance vastly improved. Last week a vine of steel scaffolding began to creep up the shaft's sides. When the scaffolding reaches the top workmen will scramble up, remove dirt, soot, dust, fill in chinks, bathe the entire monument in soap and water until it looks as clean as it did on Dec. 6, 1884 when its aluminum tip was finally set into place. Cost of the monument's first bath...
...little people with piping voices and thick Germanic accents who are employed as courtiers, adagio dancers, Mickey & Minnie Mouse and scores of Three Little Pigs. The problem of what could be done with midgets in the theatre has long bemused Broadway. Keep Moving has not solved it, but droll, dust-dry Comedian Tom Howard has in one skit. The midget, dressed as a child in a blue "sleeper," comes onstage demanding to be told a bedtime story. Irascible Mr. Howard refuses to treat the midget as a child, tartly tells him he is old enough to be his father, contemptuously...
...reins of the Freshman eleven last year and brought an involved Notre Dame system to them for the first time. The intricacy of the plays held the youngsters back for a while but when the steam-roller started, the destruction was terrific. Dartmouth and Yale both bit the dust on the short side of a very long score. Lamar, the Varsity boxing coach will be coaching his first year of Freshman football.SHAUN KELLY, JR. '36, considered likely All-American material. Injuries kept him out of several games last season...