Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yesterday's New York Times can be read after a considerable wait. Other dailies of doubtful importance may be had slightly more than a week after publication, and one, it seems, can't get past the fatal fascination of October 13. Back numbers, or rather, further back numbers, gather dust in the inaccessible stacks...
...Capistrano, a dust storm added to the woes of the firefighters. In Los Angeles itself, a mantle of ashes settled over everything...
Typical of the cinema method employed in Things to Come is the passage describing what happens when they leave the Earth: "Clouds of dust obscure the screen and clear to show the crowd after the shock. Some press their ears as if they were painful, others stare under their hands up into the sky. Then the crowd begins to stream back towards the city . . . in a straggling, aimless manner, and pausing ever and again to stare...
...miles in length, the highest point of which extended upwards into the atmosphere some 17 miles. The body was tawny in color. That a cloud could rise so high in such a rarified atmosphere seemed unlikely. The explanation for it was that it was probably a cloud of dust swept from the arid regions of the temperate zone. Recent dust clouds in the middle west of America have reached vastly larger proportions...
...crap games, still shout their religion, their love and fear of ''Lawd Jesus." Porgy, the crippled beggar, appears driving his seedy goat. The simple love story is his. Bess belongs to the murderer Crown. According to the neighbors she is "a liquor-guzzlin' slut," a "Happy Dust" addict. Porgy gives her shelter, buys her a divorce although she never has been married, sets out tragically with his goat to follow her when she runs off to New York...