Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marred by airplane trouble. His plane came down once at Rantoul, Ill., another landed him at Waterloo, Iowa. There, in the hippodrome of the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress, 4,500 farmers and farm women gave him a hand as his white shoes waded through the inch-thick dust on the dirt floor to put him before the microphone. Save for paying his compliments to Germany (see p. 9), he delivered a mild defense of NRA: "When anybody tells you that NRA and the Blue Eagle have not done for the farmer all that he hoped, you can confidently tell them...
...band played a selection, officers of native son organizations made appropriate remarks, the Olympic Club sang a song. A three-gun salute was fired by a battalion of the 159th U. S. Infantry, taps were bugled by an American Legion post. Provided by sentimental citizens with the honors his dust had waited 54 years to receive, the giddy monarch rested at last beneath a shaft marked...
Believe it or not, Mr. Editor, heads will roll in the dust before this fight is over, before the "Friends of New Germany and the Foes of Old America" are skidded back to Swineland. And if you haven't heard the news yet at Harvard, why, I am betraying no confidences when I tell you that every day the new secret organization, American Defenders, are swearing a scared oath that America will never be Sweiniezed...
...traced Tom Jensen down to Seattle, heard that he had raffled off a nugget bracelet belonging to Sweet Marie on the boat, had cashed the gold dust at the Seattle assay office. His trail led down to San Francisco, across through Texas, faded in New Jersey...
...Vagabond had long since quit his lonely vigil high up amid Mem Hall's cobwebs and dust. The atmosphere there was stifling--stifling, and this was spring. It was spring. But the Vagabond had seen many springs and spring was always the same...