Word: grime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Illinois he unearthed no new grime...
...special session of the Indiana Senate to consider the impeachment of Governor Jackson, if he was not allowed to interview D. C. Stephenson. Later in the week, Prosecutor Will H. Remy, who had sent Mr. Stephenson to jail, called for a grand jury investigation of Indiana's grime...
...this all. "People are too busy in these days to make love . . . to write billets-doux." And the automobile is of course to blame. The loss of these dainty confections of literature is truly tragic. Yet the squinting scholar may smile amidst the grime of a blowout to thank his otherwise cursed machine for preventing the literary effusions of future Pamelas...
Soviet experts, restoring ancient ikons in the Winter Garden of Moscow's Kremlin, found two, three and even four paintings underlying each other on the same wooden panel, concealed beneath centuries of grime and smoke. The lowest layers showed pure Byzantine work of the 11th Century, antedating the Italian primitives and giving evidence of the sources of inspiration for much early Western...
...wonderful light has been revealed glowing beneath the dust of centuries, a famous panel lost for nearly 400 years. It was part of a sale at auction in Prague, and was discovered by Dr. Gustav Weil, collector, through an obscure Persian inscription and a signature almost buried in grime. The "light that never was on land or sea" was painted by Rembrandt, if by any one. His pictures glow with a peculiar mellow intensity that can hardly have existed in the actual scene before him. While the light from Rembrandt's brush falls on them, they are people...