Word: grime
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...walking. They are 50 feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary. . . . It is the terrible deliberation of each step that spells out their tiredness. Their faces are black and unshaven. They are young men, but the grime and whiskers and exhaustion make them look middleaged. In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory-there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever...
...which miners call "the rope" began to move. After five minutes, scores of coal cars filled with miners came from beneath the earth, black as the coal they mined, only the whites of their eyes and the red of their lower lips showing through the layer of dust and grime. They looked like tired blackface minstrels with nothing to joke about...
Into the Penney cellar went a home-size experimental Precipitron. Willing helpers in any attempt to lessen Pittsburgh grime were Mrs. Penney and daughter Marjorie Elizabeth, who became the first field-test observers. Quickly they found daily dustings were unnecessary-once a week was enough. Curtains which formerly turned dark in a few days stayed fresh for several months. At the end of two weeks, Engineer Penney filled a quart milk bottle with the black, powdery rubbish from the air. Experience with other installations (about 150 in homes of Westinghouse workers) has improved performance. Manager Penney last week reported that...
...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...