Word: littering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon a litter lay Empress Nagako. Erect and stern, Emperor Hirohito surveyed the scene before him. To one side court bards chanted a portion of the classics in a low tone. The great of the Empire surrounded the Imperial group. In it was Premier Güchi Tanaka, clad immaculately in Occidental formal attire. Hands placed together, he prayed, standing, eyes wide open, before a flag-adorned shrine...
Houses collapsed and the litter they made was hurled over the land for miles. Heavy rains beat down. Rivers and streams rose seething, overflowing their banks and rushing through the already flattened rice fields. Whipped into angry eddies by the driving storm, the flood carried whole houses with...
...drawing-room, Mr. Healy began to throw things and the others joined him. The bottles were their favorite ammunition, but when the last pint had crashed into "The Old Man's" (by Rubens) forehead, its dregs and fragments joining the unholy litter on the rug, they picked up vases, jars, bookends, ash trays. They caved in the forehead of the youngest Lommelini (by Van Dyck), raked the mother's face with chair legs, sent a bottle-neck through the Lommelini daughter's cheek. One of them yanked open the vitals of a $17,000; built-in parlor...
This is because a Bissell sweeper with its large brush is particularly efficient on any kind of miscellaneous litter, because of its extreme lightness and handiness to use, because it is ready the instant you pick it up and costs little. In others words, it is simply a ball bearing bristle broom-on-wheels with its own long handled dust pans...
...cats of Kern County. Rocking with glee, the newsgatherers told stories about cowardly cats fleeing to cover, proud cats ignoring such easy prey, big-hearted cats adopting families of mice. The ever-colorful New York World carried a report of one cat who added 16 mice to her litter of kittens. The World headline read: "Cats . . . Scorn Tons of Mice as Tabby Manna...