Word: rubbishing
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...squirrels, and about 40 salamanders are regularly kept and a pair of monkeys were added last year to the collection. There is also a moth-eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is at present in the process of decay that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University Museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...
...ugly enough in them without having women wear them." But Mme Schiaparelli gave women practically everything else, including dresses made of cellophane and rubber, collars of china, gadgets designed from harness. One of her best textile designs grew out of some plaster and netting she picked up in a rubbish pile. In her crusade for sharp, dramatic line ("skyscraper silhouet") Mme Schiaparelli persecutes the button with morbid zeal, has substituted all manner of gadgets in place of it, including metal coat fasteners in the shape of dollar signs...
...workers are accustomed to wash the shop up a bit, carry out of a few tons of rubbish, and then boast 'Our plant is just as clean as those of Ford.' This, of course, is nonsense. Ford has his smooth cement floors washed with soap three and four times a day. If the paint comes off anywhere a man shows up immediately with a brush and touches up the spot...
...time until, in 1918, the Soviet government of Russia expressed its official uninterest in paying the debts of the Czarist regime, sixteen billion gold francs, drained slowly from the savings of the French people, were loaned to Russia, secured by bonds that have long since been tossed on the rubbish heap. Most of the profit in the sixteen billion found its way back to Schneider-Creusot and is today in their factories and their bank accounts...
...Fifth Symphony, one night last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, while Conductor Koussevitzky asked the audience to sit down, be quiet. The billows of smoke that were gushing out on the stage and swirling among the imperturbable musicians, were only from a fire in a rubbish chute, which was quickly controlled. When a friend congratulated Koussevitzky not only for averting a panic but for keeping his tempo precise and unhurried through it all, Koussevitzky answered: "Ah! But tempo is tempo and tranquillity is tranquillity...