Word: grime
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...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...
Through this vast productive crescent, sprinkled with iron ore, the pattern of industry runs with scarcely an interruption-dingy houses, sooty factories, chimneys, smoke, grime. Here are the blast furnaces, iron foundries, rolling mills which turn out the indispensable metal of warfare-steel. Here is the crucible which forges the weapons of World...
...Canadian-born Explorer Kaulback, Tibet is no hermit kingdom, but a realistic Shangri-La whose glacial rocks, shrewd lamas, innumerable prayer-wheels, odoriferous grime somehow delight his Cambridge-bred soul. He had been to Tibet once before and was glad to get back: "It was good to taste real buttered tea again. ... We ourselves were awash by the time the tents were up. ... That night it was just as it had been two years before. . . horsebells jingling; the howl of a dog; a voice in the distance singing a mournful song; and over everything the smell of wood smoke...