Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been before). By doggedness, we dug up a second-hand bathtub and seat toilet ($750 U.S.; new equipment would have cost $2,000). By ruthless shopping we found several midget stoves (coal has jumped from $60 to $110 U.S. a ton; and at that it's partly dust and clay), which will be our sole source of heat this winter. The Japs made scrap of most of China's radiators and Nanking electric power is so rationed that electric heaters we brought with us from the States are useless. I might add, incidentally, that there is no cooking...
...last big restoration of this masterpiece, which was painted in 1642, was done in 1758 by the restorer, Jan van Dijk, and in the nearly two centuries which have elapsed since that time, the picture has been covered with different layers of oil, varnish and balsam, mixed with dust. These are the layers which have been removed...
Most of Janet Fairbank's recitals lose money, a fact which doesn't concern her greatly. ("I figure I like to sing and it's worth it to me.") Grandfather N. K. Fairbank made his fortune in Gold Dust washing powder, among other things, and helped found the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Janet's mother is Novelist Janet Ayer (The Bright Land) Fairbank; her aunt is Pulitzer Prize Novelist Margaret Ayer (Years of Grace) Barnes. In a stone mansion on Chicago's State Street and on a gingerbready Victorian estate at Wisconsin's Lake Geneva...
...roof was about to fall in on Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt, while his latest blueprints to tackle the housing emergency gathered dust on a White House shelf...
...schools-two grim and chilly buildings. At the girls' school, says Mrs. Vining, "You have to shout against the noise from the other classes and the people passing in the corridors. There is no electric light [and no heat]. . . . The floors, of rough wood, are grimy with dust from soldiers' feet over the years. The classrooms are like box stalls...