Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Nuffield will be remembered when many a belted earl and many a British statesman are forgotten dust, Mayfair has been too inclined to dismiss his magnificent philanthropies as vulgar show of wealth. Last week, however, aristocrats could read in the Sunday Express about something they appreciated, Viscount Nuffield's ancestors...
Died. Donald Robert Perry Marquis, 59, columnist, humorist, playwright; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Forest Hills, N. Y. Author of Dreams and Dust, The Old Soak, The Dark Hours, he was best known for the adventures of mehitabel the amorous cat ("toujours gaie toujours gaie") and of archie, the cockroach which hopped from key to key of the author's typewriter, composing...
...Doll's House (by Henrik Ibsen, new acting version by Thornton Wilder; produced by Jed Harris). Of late years Ibsen's famed Doll's House has been gathering dust in the theatre's attic. But shrewd Producer Jed Harris thought that all the old play needed was a thorough dusting. As house cleaner he got Author Thornton Wilder, whose used his broom with a will, beat all the grimy old-fashionedness out of the dialogue, threw 15 unnecessary minutes right out the window. Producer Harris opened his refurbished Doll's House at last summer...
...accumulated deposits of a village site, ranging in depth from a yard or so to 16 ft., contain ashes, shells, sea urchin spines, rotted wood and sod, bones of fish, birds and mammals (including whales), blown dust or silt, organic refuse of all sorts. Naturally the scientist cannot see this stuff without digging, because it is covered with vegetation. It is the vegetation itself which gives the clue. Rooted in such beds of unintentional fertilizer, the growth is darker, richer and taller than the average, and may show a luxuriant cover of plants which are rare elsewhere. On Kodiak Island...
...LaGuardia discussed with Empire State's President Alfred E. Smith alterations currently under way in his City Hall executive offices. Said Landlord Smith: "City Hall looks like it needs to be sent to the laundry. You ought to sandblast it." Tenant LaGuardia: "That would be like polishing the dust off a bottle of old wine...