Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Tack. In Milan, Italy, people got worried about their bread's strange texture, learned that hard-up bakers had stretched flour rations with marble dust...
Atoms to atoms and dust to dust...
...Cool of the Evening. In South Carolina, when the sun sets and the day's work is done (but the strain of the day still lingers in mind and muscle), when the restless dust starts to settle back on the cotton fields, men gather on verandahs and wharves to sit and talk while they watch the bullbats nervously darting and swooping around the chimneys. Bourbon with water from the branch is in order-and low-voiced, scattered talk of high politics. Such a talk Jimmy Byrnes calls a "bullbat session." He loves them. In 1946 the bullbat session-bourbon...
...Jamini Roy, a Calcutta "primitive" who quit his highbrow protrait business to paint flat, bright figures like the ones which decorate Bengali pots and dolls. Jamini (rhymes with Tammany) makes his own paints from rock dust, mud, chalk and tamarind seeds, keeps a back-roomful of helpers grinding out copies of his wasp-waisted festival dancers, friendly tigers and almond-eyed Christs...
...that the dust of war had settled, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum could drag out the priceless Japanese prints it acquired in 1936, and had never displayed. On exhibit last week, the Met's 339 Uki-yoye ("pictures of the floating world") were new proof that no one ever beat the Japanese at printmaking...