Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week it halted for a few moments for a ceremony- the assembling of the 2,000,000th vacuum cleaner which the company has manufactured since President Wardell created it in 1910. The 2,000,000th machine is resplendent. The parts are goldplated, the case studded with brilliants, the dust bag made of silk. It works, but it will not be sold because President Wardell has offered it as a sales trophy to that one of 22 branches which sells the most cleaners during October, November and December...
...boat had scuffed out of her dock, a great flower of flame was growing through her decks, sprouting in the passageways, flourishing suddenly out of the port holes. Captain van Schaick watched his passengers who were discovering to their horror that all the life pre servers were full of dust, not cork, that all the life boats sank as soon as they were launched. He watched a few deckhands trying to attach the hose which was so old and frail that it broke in their hands. There was a whining report as the port rail of the after deck collapsed...
Arlington -- "Red Dust," 8.15 o'clock. To be reviewed...
...after lunch with bits of greasy sandwich wrappings in the aisles . . . more bells and the shuffle of feet going downstairs . . . two ratty brats squirming at their desks, writing out "I must learn to be polite and not to pass notes" . . . through the hot passages where cleaning women stir the dust into corners . . . . the sudden fresh darkness outside...
Settled on the arm of a fjord cut on the coast of Norway stands the town of Trondhjem. Hidden in the dark dust of archives of the Association of Science in this town, lay for many years a manuscript. Last week it came to light: a rough copy in verse of Love's Comedy-second important play of the greatest of modern dramatists, Henrik Ibsen...