Word: dusters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dropping work at once Dictator Mussolini ordered out his racing Alpha Romeo, donned a linen duster, cap and heavy goggles, drove at breakneck speed 250 miles over especially cleared roads to Donna Rachele. Even then he did not forget the grain. A harvest conference with leading Italian producers had been scheduled for next day in Rome. Brusquely the conferees, including Minister of Economy Alessandro Martelli, were ordered to speed to Forli too. There in the government building hastily swept out for the occasion. Babe & Grain Generalissimo Mussolini continued his fructive campaign, ordered still wider distribution of his famed propaganda poem...
...story of Duster's dismissal from the College has generally been related as an instance of Puritan bigotry and intolerance. Dunster, since his arrival, had been an orthodox Calvinist and member of the Cambridge Church but by careful study he reached the conclusion, some time in 1653, that the baptism of infants was unauthorized by scripture. Accordingly he refused to present for baptism his son who was horn in the fall of that year. The news that President Dunster had become a Baptist created about the same sensation in the Colony as would be aroused in the country today...
...Wisconsin corpse is decorated with larkspur, feather-duster, oranges, and chiffon−is his charming niece the artist...
Novels--The Gypsy, W. B. Trites. All for Nothing, J. D. Beresford. Deluge, Fowler Wright. Wintersmoon, Hugh Walpole, Claire Ambler, Booth Tarkington, Giants in the Earth, O. E. Rolvaag. Etched in Moonlight, James Stephens, Red Rust, Cornelia J. Cannon, Julius--"A Gentleman With a Duster" Tinker's Leave, Maurice Baring. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather. Gallions Reach, H. M. Tomlinson. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder. Carry on, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse. Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse. No Other Tiger, A. E. W. Mason. The Crook's Shadow, J. Jefferson Farjeon. The Portrait Invisible...
...Majesty, personally wielding a broom and duster according to despatches, assisted with the sweeping, tidying, supervised the packing, indicated that the ornate decorations of the late Duke's bedroom should be torn out and replaced by a simple decor in cream and blue...