Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon's epigrammatist has been growing somewhat reflective of late but now that a new tree, an elm in fact, is going to be planted on the site of his old favorite, he is beginning to show signs of his erstwhile cheerfulness. The famous picalo, laid away in the dust of Lampy's attic for many months, will be played by Bob at the laying of the corner-root. "This ceremony will be the most impressive that has ever been conducted since John Harvard staked out his claim by the banks of the Charles," admitted the Lampoon...
...tense silence, which made people's ears ring, and a sense of oppression heralded the coming of the tornado. There was a dull drumming sound as of innumerable wings being flapped high in the air, and the swirl of black dust about the sky. Then a spiral of loosely woven clouds headed downward, an inky blackness in its wake, and the twister began its devastation...
...struck with the way a similar article produces a different reaction. Over this story of Will Stickney, of Naomi Lestrange (whom he marries, with whom he parts after vicissitudes, to whom he returns at the last), of many highly imaginary musical celebrities, there is a heavy coating of dust which almost obscures the few virtues which Author Bacon, as an artist, possesses. Whether literature has improved or changed in the last ten years, cannot here be decided; but certainly it has changed its channel, and Mrs. Bacon's writings, once islands, are now dry, tedious wastes, unprofitable for readers...
...During the last 20 years women's fashions have undone all the evil they did during 500 years. If men during the next 20 years make as much progress, men will have a reason for being proud of their sex. It is men nowadays who brush the dust off their shoes with their long pants. It is men who have to fasten innumerable buttons before their dress is complete. Fashions are no mean part of civilization. But report them as news, not for the purpose of enabling your readers to wear the latest. I do not have the time...
...Western & Atlantic R. R., bearing the scars of Civil War battles-battles in which it had brought powder and shot, in which it had been captured by the Confederates and recaptured by the Boys in Blue. There was a Wells-Fargo express stagecoach which had once carried gold-dust from the San Francisco mining camps. There were, great behemoths, now in use to pull freight or passengers; G-3-d engines, the most powerful in use on the Canadian Pacific; the John B. Jervis, new Delaware & Hudson locomotive, using the new water-tube boiler system, weighing 314 tons, the King...