Word: grime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is no call for modesty, most shower baths are located alongside the public highway. Late in the afternoon one can drive along the road and see hundreds of men-whites here, blacks there- standing under a shower, washing off a half-inch accumulation of the day's grime. Soldiers love to pick quaint names for their camps: Virgin Lane, Luna(tic) Park, Scroungers' Rest, Hog Willow, and One Hundred Twenty-fifth Street...
...rich cache of personal history which the robbers left behind was discovered by two young artists renovating the house. Beneath the dust and grime of a century, Mr. and Mrs. James Heugh found three ripped canvas mail sacks. Letters lay strewn among the joists, the seals broken, envelopes and messages separated helter-skelter. Some of them...
...silver slippers, broken magnums, torn sheet music, dented saxophones, smashed discs. One of the dead was Martinus Poulsen, who before the war owned a chain of night spots worth more than ?250.000. But some of the carefree young survived. They dragged themselves out. They went with their bruises and grime to a West End hotel. They washed up. They went to the ballroom and ordered food and drinks. They asked the bandleader for a number they will never forget: Oh, Johnny, Oh Johnny, How You Can Love...
...with a brand-new Ford, the effect is of violent slapstick rather than of a moron's disregard for mechanical decency. As Jeeter's daughter Ellie May, Actress Gene Tierney had herself systematically dirtied every day. But, typically enough of Hollywood, the events leading up to the grime did not include giving Ellie May the hare lip she has in the stage play. Typically also, old Jeeter finally gets the rent money he has been seeking throughout the picture. In giving the disheveled story a moral scrubbing, a bath of pathos and a sort of happy ending, Hollywood...
...have no song at all, as yet) have dirty ears and dirty faces, and are proud of it. After a day in a tank's greasy, growling, churning innards, the begoggled men and officers of the U. S. Army's new Armored Force are sheathed in grime. But they wear their grime with a difference...