Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong men allowed their beards to grow long and bushy, for President Coolidge was coming to town. They wanted him to see Deadwood as it looked in the days of the gold rush, following 1876, when "Wild Bill" Hickock, "Deadwood Dick" and "Calamity Jane" were kicking up dust in its streets. A pageant was staged for President Coolidge, who gladly shook the wrinkled hand of aged "Deadwood Dick...
Several years ago doctors paid attention to wall paper because they found that most of their patients poisoned by arsenic had inhaled it as dust from their green-tinted wall paper. Wallpaper makers ceased using arsenical dyes for their designs...
...first "flying cigar store," unless it, the much-traveled Sikorsky biplane S-29,* specially tricked out and loaded by the United Cigar Stores Co., has further misfortune. Last week, trying to start its tour from Curtiss Field, L. I., it bowled into a smaller ship obscured by dust on the field, delaying its departure four days. On board were eight persons including skipper and wife, salesmen, mechanics...
Both Messrs. Alexander and Pearce, however, agreed on one charm-the Black Cat's Wishbone (which was priced at $1,000 in a circular distributed by Mr. Alexander). About this potent charm the almost equally famed Goofer Dust songs have been written...
When wealthy city people move to the country for the summer, their homes, though usually closed, do not remain untenanted. The furniture may be clothed in white muslin dust suits; only the window-buzzing of imprisoned flies may break the silence of the shaded rooms; but in the vacant dwellings a host of people and personages continue their existence without regard to season-smiling the same smiles, making the same gestures, staring perennially in fixed directions...