Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pools of soft warm dust on country lanes...
...might interest you to know that men like Bernard Shaw, James Montgomery Flagg and George Lansbury be said to have appointed persons to be apostles, any more than John the Baptist appointed Jesus to be the Christ. You cannot appoint a sunrise nor stop it, though you can throw dust in people's eyes so they...
...dull description of the dentists. But, ha! another dentist! an Ecuadorian of no high ethics. He filled teeth with tin and copper instead of gold. Trembling with apprehension the parents read on, ons not a long storyd for reasons which were not explained had been allowed to accumulate the dust of a quarter century. It had not been written by H. L. Mencken, colyumist, lexicographer, magazine editor, the man who named the Baptist Belt and who derides his less accomplished countrymen as "snouting yokels." It had been written by an H. L. Mencken, aged 20, reporter on the Baltimore Morning...
...Espana costumes are not kept longer on the stage. The scanty, raspberry colored, roses which cover the ladies of the chorus in the second act might well have been omitted. And why couldn't the stage have been swept before all those beautiful girls sat down and acquired dust halos on their tights...
...Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript: "Harvard and also Yale had better forget their radical changes, as it were, and brace up. Be good losers, for they give every evidence of being poor sports, or the name of fair Harvard and Eli Yale will be dragging down in the dust...