Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memorial is always a monument to the past, not the future a sort of graveyard for old memories. Surely, then, it is nothing short of profanation to think of ousting these memories from the mouldy shroud in which they have now slept for half a century. The dust of years lies thick upon the carved rafters. Since the closing of the hall, perhaps bats already flit about in the colored gloom that sifts through the stained glass windows at midday. Through the deep silence a solitary watchman sees the spider drop from the lofty roof and weave an endless...
...famed sophisticate, from Grigori Zinoviev, Chief of the Third Internationale, went an answer to the former's sneering criticism of the Bolshevik regime. Said M. Zinoviev: "Shaw, flower of the petty bourgeoisie, considers himself above Karl Marx. But if we compare both, Shaw appears as a scarcely visible dust speck...
Thayer Hall--No. 3, Alexander McGilverie: No. 4, Archibald Craige, No. 10, The White Monkeys; No. 15, Agnes Ayres; No. 17, Lambert Deiser; No. 19, Gold Dust Twins; No. 25, Jonathan Herlock; No. 26, Plato and Aristotle; No. 37, Deuces Wild; No. 49, Two Prayers; No. 50, Spyke; No. 61, Andy...
...cold, of hunger, of a great lust for gold. The scene is New Mexico; the characters are the same daring, credulous, foolish, get rich-quickers who have strewed tin cans, romance, and their own bones on every trail from civilization to gold field since the days of '49. Gold Dust is the new town and the howling desert is its back yard. All the old setting is there: wild rumors, pokes filled with precious dust, a mad scramble for claims, tents, grimy men, and tired women. The automobile is the one touch of the twentieth century, and it is used...
...civilization as one to gain wealth. The same urge that sends men toiling to the woods and streams for game whose value is rarely ever that of even the instruments that one employed to get it, sends them through a New Mexican blizzard to the town of Gold Dust. Men are more elemental than they know...