Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London last week was a normal city in all save two respects: its ruins and nightly blackouts. Dingy it was, but for lack of paint, not from bomb dust. Its last air alarm was more than two months...
...through Szechwan Province last week the squealing of unoiled wheelbarrows made sensitive eardrums quiver. Rice was wheeling in-tons of rice in dust-coated, round, bulging sacks. In the ears of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the sound was a screech of victory. It meant that Szechwan, Chungking's Province, at last...
...Army found out last week that it could not do its housecleaning without raising political dust. Congressional pals of officers whom the Army swept out began to raise dust aplenty. Dustiest squawk came from Missouri's Senators: rabid Isolationist Bennett Clark and obedient New Dealer Harry Truman. The Senators were aroused because Truman's cousin, 61-year-old Major General Ralph E. Truman, credited with saving the 35th Division from a rout at the Argonne Forest in World War I, had been relieved of his field command by Lieut. General Ben Lear, assigned to head the reclassification board...
...argument that Hess is in England because Hitler sent him there; 6) The River Flows Home, a hortatory and prophetic essay suggesting the shape of things to come. Sample: "The tumult breaks out once more. A mob storms the Bastille and a king's head rolls in the dust. Man will be happy yet. . . . You, too, workers of the world, in your slums and lightless factories, you will know the light...
Recently Mr. Lewis became alarmed at the dust piling up in such world-famed centers of Philadelphic culture as the Franklin Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts. Observing that adult-education clubs flourished in Philadelphia suburbs, he launched a campaign. He put circulars on every Philadelphia doorstep, posters in every Philadelphia streetcar, inviting one & all to join a new Junto and gather in the museums for fun and learning. Members would attend ten-week courses (at $2 a course) on such subjects as art, cartooning, music, nature, airplanes, contract bridge, writing, gardening, philosophy, dancing. To teach them...