Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well, I am going to tell you of how a portion of that large amount was saved as regards the maids, biddies, goodies, or amazons (which ever you prefer.) In a recent editorial of your paper you spoke of "sweeping economy (with or without dust.) It was very well done and was greatly appreciated by us all. But you haven't all the facts and when I speak I think I represent the greater majority of maids. Right here I will agree that if some of them had only three boys to care for they wouldn't do it properly...
...Sept. The boys can come in anytime thereafter, with the result that the maid is trying to clean the suite and the boy is trying to settle and the former does a poor job of it. Now naturally that student expected to find everything O.K. and not three months' dust on floors, walls, and windows...
...issue is clear cut. To cleave to hallowed precedent or to suffer Harvard tradition to fall deplorably and dishonorably in the dust. With what nick-name, term, or epithet shall we refer to the cheerful Amazons who sweep our floors and make our beds? Shall we say "goody" or "biddy...
Claude Vannec, a young French archeologist who feels himself an Ishmael, is on his way to Cambodia, obsessed by dreams of Asia: "The marching forth of armies in the scented dusk loud with cicadas, the horses' hoofs stirring up dust-clouds dark with slowly veering columns of mosquitoes, shrill cries of caravans beside the tepid fords, envoys waiting for the tide by mudflats spangled with shoals of stranded fish, blued by a mist of butterflies above, and old kings rotten with caresses-and then that other dream, the dream that never left him. of shrines and gods of stone...
Turning to national planning by an economic board, Mr. Cabot said it would not work "because there is no authority now in existence which has the power to put the plans into effect.' He described the results of such a board as "a million plans gathering dust an someone's desk...