Word: soot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bare toes in the gutter, asked newshawks: "There isn't anything wrong with shorts, is there?'' Last month, clad in men's shorts and a shirt, Mrs. Holmsen rode from Manhattan to Reno on the observation platform of her train, got so dirty from soot that ''a dignified gentleman" threatened to have her put off the train as a blackamoor. In Reno, still in shorts but without shoes or stockings, she entered a restaurant bar, was chased out by a head waiter...
...tour four months, they would have found the height of the Washington Monument unchanged but its appearance vastly improved. Last week a vine of steel scaffolding began to creep up the shaft's sides. When the scaffolding reaches the top workmen will scramble up, remove dirt, soot, dust, fill in chinks, bathe the entire monument in soap and water until it looks as clean as it did on Dec. 6, 1884 when its aluminum tip was finally set into place. Cost of the monument's first bath...
...Soot or cobwebs to stop a wound from bleeding...
Minor Prophet? Dickens' England was a country in which the Industrial Revolution was just getting under way. not without slime and soot. No observer of the contemporary scene could fail to notice the more noisome puddles, and Dickens soon made a name for himself as a crusader against social ills. To his critics' assertion that his indignation proceeded from no plan, that he had no social program, his defenders reply that his attacks did much of the spadework that made programs possible. In many a passage in his novels he pictured the desperate plight of the metropolitan poor...
...Because soot-black young Chief Tshekedi of the Bamangwato tribe ordered a white man flogged, he was banished from his country by Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans. Acting High Commissioner for Bechuanaland (TIME, Sept...