Word: grime
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...Daily Express, Critic John Grime was indignant because (said Grime) Disney had announced that he was going to Eire to hunt leprechauns. "... A greater piece of hocus-pocus publicity was never foisted on a realistic world," wrote Grime. Disney had carefully explained that he was going to Eire to look for story ideas for his forthcoming The Little People...
Last week Rembrandt's original subject was beginning to shine through again. The Rijksmuseum's restorers had been hard at work for nine months, washing away the grime and varnish, layer by layer, freeing the cool blues, greens and purples, the long-hidden faces. It would take another three months to bring full dawn...
...name, he said, was "Juke." He was a little 125-lb. fellow. His eyes were sunk back in his ash-colored face; there was grime under his eyes and pasted into the wrinkles around his mouth and on his forehead. He wore a shirt that was once white; now it was black and yellow and there was spaghetti sauce over the left breast. His breath had the smell of vomit and cheap booze. Juke was unmistakably one of West Madison Street's citizens...
...highest observation station on this planet-11,500 feet above sea level-and the only coronagraph in the western hemisphere are in line, according to a story in the Alumni Bulletin which remarked that "at Climax the air is clear and washed free of the dust and grime of the low-lands" and said sarcastically, "Cambridge is much the same...
...University of Pennsylvania. Looking around him, he exclaimed that he could not stand the dirty drabness any longer. Reaching into his suitcase, he pulled out his red and blue academic hood and hung it on a wall bracket-the only note of color in the dust and grime. After a day or two no one noticed...