Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc. blew the dust off some rare old statistics on the state of the U.S. thirst. The per capita consumption of distilled spirits was 2.86 gallons in 1860, only 1.22 gallons...
...Iowa State College a professor of chemical engineering predicted the self-dusting chair-a plastic product with a slight negative charge of electricity which would repel dust particles...
...Best Flannel. One consequence was that the main bedroom in the Leighton house was littered with oatmeal dust and old lemon peels "turned all conceivable shades of blue and green mold." Underneath a study table heaped with notes scrawled on brown paper bags, paste pots, unpaid bills and old quill pens sat an assortment of patient, sighing dogs-preponderantly Skye terriers, since Queen Victoria had been partial to Skyes. And since the dear Queen was whispered to have been partial to flannel underwear, garments of the best bluish-green Welsh flannel were generally draped over the study furniture and fireplace...
...states, by diverting funds from pork barrel projects or dust and interest collecting treasury acounts, could increase their school budgets and raise salaries. To refuse to do the latter on grounds of economy would be to practice a very foolish economy indeed. But other states, because of tax laws which throw part of the school financing burden upon local communities, while at the same time severely restricting the possible sources of local revenue, impose an impossible problem for themselves. Similarly, too much state taxation is laid upon real estate values and not enough upon income an incongruous situation if finer...
These descriptive passages succeed brilliantly. Author Lowry presents the Mexican scene with such vivid lavishness that by the time the reader has reached the end of Under the Volcano there is not an unfamiliar bird, beast or grain of dust. But the method which succeeds so well in regard to landscape is unendurable in regard to the human mind and soul. Author Lowry's psychoanalysis-with its interminable interior monologues and devotion to the tiniest turns of thought-results in a prose so coagulated by indiscriminate introspection that it bogs down like the characters it describes...