Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McAdooing. Ever since he magnanimously withdrew his own name, for the alleged sake of party harmony, it has rankled with Mr. McAdoo that Candidate Smith did not do likewise. Mr. McAdoo is so Dry that he has sworn he would do almost anything to make Candidate Smith bite the dust: "I don't care what happens to me but-." What better agent for this purpose could Mr. McAdoo have found than a Dry and a Catholic whose prestige began to surpass his own as long ago as the 1924 convention? At that convention, Senator Walsh waved aside sure acclamation...
...biographers and makers of historical fiction. Allan Nevins, to be sure, has been tempted, thrilled by Frémont. Otherwise he would not have written 698 pages about him. But Mr. Nevins is a respecter of history, a scholar. His Frémont, entrancing, exacting, will not be a dust-catcher on top library shelves. It has put more life in the prairies than any book since Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln. It has harnessed the antics of land-grabbing, gold-greedy pioneers and hot-tempered politicians. It has gusto...
...Dust, mice, and cobwebs will receive by default the monopoly on the Mt. Auburn Street and other dormitories unless procrastinating members of the University promptly file their reengagement cards for the occupation of rooms for the coming year before 1 o'clock today...
...ever heard by man. Three thousand miles away, on Rodriguez Island near Madagascar, its sound roared four hours after the happening. In South America, 10,000 miles away, the tide was raised. Waves around the East Indies archipelago were 100 ft. high and went 400 miles an hour. Volcanic dust blew 20 miles high; swift upper winds carried the dust around the earth in 20 days. Sunlight was murky; sunsets were apocalyptic...
...smallest, a pomeranian, Bogota Firebug, minced into the ring on insect legs. Like a mosquito who has been crawling in the fluffy dust under a boarding house bed, he stood, looking up at the crowd with startled, pert malignance...