Word: powderly
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...woman brought out another tray of weeds and rice husks. A fine whitish powder covered the bottom...
...Stop right there. Who said anything about reasonable? Give the waiter 20%, the captain a dollar or two dollars, the hatcheck girl 25 or 50?, the powder-room attendant a quarter, the doorman a quarter and the beggar in front of the door a quarter-then switch with the beggar...
Many a paunchy, jowly citizen of U.S. suburbia, when he thinks of his youth, remembers Alice Prin. For Alice, with the heavy purple rouge over the surrealist green powder, Alice, with the bright crimson cupid bow hiding her thin upper lip and the spit curl embellishing her low forehead, was the toast (to put it delicately) of Paris in the days when Expatria infested the Left Bank...
...atomic saboteurs may sow the U.S. with hidden volcanoes waiting to erupt on a chosen Pearl Harbor day. "A target, to be safe must be surrounded by a sanitary area at least a mile in radius. Any house can be as dangerous to its surroundings as the greatest of powder magazines. Twenty thousand tons of TNT can be kept under the counter of a candy store...
...artist sniffs, sends Kitty off to an adjacent powder room to wash. Then he puts her in position (with suitable decolletage), cocks a critical eye, takes up an artistic stance, begins to sketch. It is only a matter of time before Kitty's portrait hangs with Gainsborough's Blue Boy at the Royal Academy, and she, a great London lady, drives the peerage half-mad with her charms...