Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note had a careful working drawing of the sort of box in which he wanted the money delivered. The ladder by which he climbed to the Lindbergh nursery was of careful, home-made construction, and a New York City toxicologist, examining ransom money as it came in, found emery dust and glycerine esters. Hence the man was likely to be a carpenter or machinist who ground his own tools. Judging from the ladder's broken rung, the man's weight was put at somewhere near 160 lb. From vague descriptions given by a taxi-driver who had taken...
...airport, ambulances and fire engines were waiting. Police, firemen, physicians stood by. Thrill-seekers by the thousand held their breath. Down into the glare of the floodlights swooped the ship, hit the earth with a thud, skidded 700 ft. on her belly in a shower of dust and sparks, ground to a stop amid cheers and applause. Damaged propellers would cost Northwest Airlines $50 to repair, but unbroken was the company's proud record of eight years without a single passenger fatality...
...HANDFUL OF DUST-Evelyn Waugh -Farrar & Rinehart...
...inferior taste, a gritty quality that set some teeth on edge. Last week readers of his latest novel were loudly disagreeing with each other about whether this new departure was or was not in a right direction. Critics had to scratch their heads to classify A Handful of Dust. In essence a satire, the story rises from farce to high comedy, reverses itself in melodramatic leaps into what most plain readers would call tragedy. As up-to-date as this week's London smartchatter, A Handful of Dust is no tragicomedy but a melofarce...
...Wodehouse, would envy Author Waugh many a scene, many a character in this book. Like other less scrupulous authors, Waugh uses some of his funniest incidents (Tony and Mrs. Rattery playing a card game while his little son is lying dead upstairs) to point his pathos. A Handful of Dust is a cunningly contrived cinema of cold wit, tender humor, impersonal satire, shameless, but effective hokum. Only a rare reader will be able to sit it through unmoved either to a smile or a sigh. The total effect is sinister. Author Waugh must be credited with having written a novel...