Word: soot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel and stogies, for smoke-belching glass factories, for a fuliginous smoke pall, for soot and cinders and fabulous fortunes that the popular mind has pictured piled in spilling, golden mounds among dark mountains -for these things has Pittsburgh been famous since men forgot how she was once a frontier fort in the Red Indians' forest...
...there is something more than the weather and the soot and the Volstead Act to explain the lack of color and noise, of bonfires, fireworks, and ringing campaign cries like "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too." The figure which the faithful Vermont delegation made singing in overcoats what was intended to be a warm and rousing song, "Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge", largely explains the nature of the convention...
Lily, sister of love, rosy, full-limbed but of infinitely more grace than the women of Rubens, had returned to the town in Ohio to bury her mother. The mother had died as bitter protest against the smoke and soot which factories shot upon her gardened mansion. Out of the factories had come human wretchedness. Into the wretchedness had gone Irene, sister of virtue, to find in Christian charity what Pagan love had denied her. To her goodness a giant had been drawn, a socialist Galahad. But when he had run from the bullets of the strikebreakers into the gardened...
...floor of Matthews, occupied by W. M. Powell '26 and H. B. Seares 2E.S. Not giving the matter much thought, they had allowed the fireplace to become filled with paper. Evidently some one throw a match or cigarette into the mass of rubbish, which quickly flared up and ignited soot in the chimney. Neither Powell nor Seares could be found when the excitement subsided...
...even if Lampy has rambled occasionally from the straight and narrow path, the best of men have their slips. Bunyan's Pilgrim missed his way more than once. Everyone has been certain that the sheep would eventualy return to the fold and everyone will readily forgive the soot on its wool. Even if the circulation does fall off, Lampy can rejoice that it is a cleaner and better sheet...