Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fingerprints in the dust of time, on the contrary, testified to more than sporadic interest in the covers of "The Class Struggle in France," a two-volume work that found the intersection of supply and demand curves at 50 cents...
...damp and chilling. Overhead, leaden black clouds were pushed across the sky by a gusty wind. The snow on the street was flecked with coal dust and dirt. It was melting slowly, producing desolate puddles of cold water...
...Mencken, cackling, venerable Sage of Baltimore, made quick response when he read a complaint that no local museum had a painting by Thomas Hart Benton. He himself had one, said Mencken, "in my cellar at this minute, gathering dust"-and he offered it to "any gallery that wants it, entirely free of all cost or expense." The Baltimore Museum of Art got the painting (an abstraction done in Benton's "earlier and more foolish days"), and Mencken asked as his reward an exemption on his income...
...Cattleman Robert Justus Kleberg Jr. (pronounced Clayberg) was riding a range as fabled as Pecos Bill's. The liege lord of all the King ranches and all the King ranchers was winding up the great fall roundup on his many pastures. With his hard-riding vaqueros, amid the dust and acrid smell of burning flesh, Bob Kleberg threaded his horse in & out of the milling hundreds of cherry-red cows and their calves. Lean-faced, gimlet-eyed, with the brim of his Stetson hat upswept in King Ranch fashion, Bob Kleberg told his vaqueros with swift gestures and quick...
...Ballad Opera, at best, is a diverting series of slightly bawdy songs interspersed with a stock plot. Idler seems to have blown the dust of nearly two centuries off "Love in a Village" with considerable success...