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Word: dusted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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CRAIG'S WIFE?About a woman who had less respect for her husband than she had for specks of dust on her polished floors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

Approaching summer has already suggested to the emotional that a young man's fancy should turn--and not lightly--toward thoughts of higher things than the mundane meanderings of the college year. So Northfield and its ilk again call the serious to the saw dust and the star dust of moral and spiritual reform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN CONFERENCE | 5/21/1926 | See Source »

...much more dust in memory's muted heap...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 5/12/1926 | See Source »

...base on balls, a passed ball, a wild pitch, and three errors were the Bowdoin contributions to their downfall in the first. The Crimson nine added a stolen base and four hits, so that when the dust cleared away, the score read Harvard 6, Bowdoin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARBEE SUPREME AS CRIMSON WINS | 4/29/1926 | See Source »

...words even as he resented her existence. She believed devoutly in a purgatory, but she thought that there was as much room there for Poodles as for Cartracks. The rest of the congregation did not. And their glances at poor Cartrack told her so emphatically, finally. Cartrack shook the dust of the Ninth Incorporated from her feet and went her way. She had changed her mind. Purgatory was not imminent and the night had a thousand stars. She repassed the drugstore with intrigue in her pekinese profile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/2/1926 | See Source »

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