Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indoors, it overflows the little room, swells out through the casements, and drifts down the sunny street. Men turn from their tasks and listen, as to a Pied Piper; old fingers and young ache to play. Someone in the fields takes up a fiddle; a fine gentleman blows the dust from his guitar. A street boy whistles; soldiers sing. All the street is become a gypsy orchestra. It is happy Vienna, Schubert's town, and the streets are filled with his song...
...indoors, it overflows the little room, swells out through the casements, and drifts down the sunny street. Men turn from their tasks and listen, as to a Pied Piper; old fingers and young ache to play. Someone in the fields takes up a fiddle; a fine gentleman blows the dust from his guitar. A street boy whistles; soldiers sing. All the street is become a gypsy orchestra. It is happy Vienna, Schubert's town, and the streets are filled with his song...
...July 27, 1931). If they laughed then it was because of his vast, Bunyanesque scale of operations. Out in the field he had 25 silver-painted combines and 50 tractors, working day & night. Caravans of trucks lumbered to market with his wheat. Five messengers on motorcycles wove through the dust of three big Texas counties bearing messages for his field foremen, his mechanics, his troublespotters. When harvest was over that year and the 22,000 acres of Hickman Price's land lay in stubble, he had raised a half-million bushels of wheat and harvested most...
...last look in cast over the first lesson for the day, and finishing touches are put on the room; for sometime during the morning, a Regular Army officer will inspect rooms to see that every article is in its designated place and that the room is absolutely free of dust and dirt. Then class call sounds and the cadets form in sections according to academic rank in that subject and march to the classroom...
Jean Harlow quit work in Red Dust for a week when her second husband, Paul Bern Levy, assistant production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, shot himself dead (TIME, Sept. 19). Soon afterward the body of Bern's common-law first wife, Dorothy Millette, clothed in a black silk dress, was found in Georgiana Slough in the Sacramento River, caught in brushwood under low-hanging willows. Bern's will left all he had to Jean Harlow, but the Sacramento Public Administrator claimed half his estate for the estate of Dorothy Millette as his "legal" wife. In Hollywood, Jean Harlow...