Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston with much blowing of trumpets for three fifty a bottle; California claret, resembling dago red to an astonishing degree, is served ice cold for the bargain price of one fifty a bottle. Three star Hennessey, which is, after all, nothing extraordinary, is the equivalent of so much gold dust in price. The solutions for all this have been stated in myriads, but, quite naturally, nothing has been done about any of them. There has been muttering about publishing the cost per bottle to the wholesalers and distillers, so that the public may see just how badly they are being...
When the "Voice of the Sky" was new, it charged advertisers $2.000 per display hour. The sign-carrying plane alone got $750. The combined apparatus may now be hired for $250 per hour. First to do so was Gold Dust Corp. From the dark skies the plane bellowed forth a musical program while its ruby letters flashed the alternating lines...
...SILVER DUST SOAP GET DISH TOWEL FREE
...escaped criticism may be taken to justify a presumptuous confidence in his own sprightly style and interests. The present reviewer, however, is bound to admit a certain weariness when encountering such passages as this, "Oh ye of little faith! Surely he lived--our Sherlock--and breathed the fog and dust of Baker Street, even as now, one hopes, he breathes the purer air that blows across the Sussex Downs. And Watson too--has he not sold his latest practice, and gone to join his comrade? How often one likes to think that it is so!" And of similar extravaganza there...
...style, Author Coates gives the picture in his own style. His reality is consequently very personal and to that extent limited. It is a respectably authentic picture of life he shows, but a very literary life. Yesterday's Burdens is a tour de force, a literarization of the dust and heat...