Word: soots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Choked Baritone. Built in 1883 at a cost of $1.7 million, the six-story, soot-encrusted exterior of the old house resembles a National Guard armory; the gilt and crimson interior has become a tawdry relic of bygone splendor. The grimy walls are veined with ominous cracks, the plaster is flaking, the gold leaf is peeling, the faded red carpeting is frayed and splotched. The creaking red velvet seats are worn slick and the stage floor is pitted and warped. Backstage, the dingy corridors are cluttered with props and tarpaulins. In Caruso's old dressing room, illuminated...
Post-Civil War America was a graceless murk of brownstones, soft-coal soot and ungainly walnut furniture. It was Victorian without even the fun of having royalty, and Critic Lewis Mumford summed up the period in a phrase, "the Brown Decades." By contrast, Europe attracted droves of artists in search of more romantic sensibilities. Of these exiles, none found herself more at home in France, while remaining essentially as American as a Henry James heroine, than Mary Cassatt. As her palette brightened, she became the only U.S. expatriate accepted by the fiercely iconoclastic French impressionists, and was invited to show...
Angry residents descended on a Detroit city council meeting last week and demanded that the city shut down the soot-spewing smokestacks of the Budd Co.'s $75 million foundry, even though the company has begun a $700,000 effort to end the nuisance. In Maryland the Federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare - using for the first time its new powers to attack pollution - gave the Bishop Processing...
...Soot and Cinders
...Anif ya look real good in a bathin soot, we can sorta (heh heh) make it lika convertible an tryit widda top down, 'fya get what I mean...