Word: dusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wiping the dust of 1923 off their feet, the aspirants for the Presidency in 1925 stepped last week upon the untrodden road of 1924. The party was surprisingly small...
...that either all of them should be recognized as legitimate, or all ruled out as harmful. The story of the man who made his living by melting silver cups which he had won in tournaments, is merely an exaggerated example. Either tennis should proclaim a complete house-cleaning, and dust the shelves as well as the floor, or else it should let the dust lie still. Luckily the dust is not yet very heavy...
...outer door has two cartouches. Khu-n-aten, Tut's father-in-law, may have held the throne jointly and have been buried with him. The chief problem of the investigators is to keep the material reasonably intact. The golden screen is in momentary danger of crumbling to dust. It has to be reinforced with waxed linen, which puts a dingy gloom on the brilliance of four millenniums...
...Clampitt's Junk-Yard, Etc. The Story. These 38 prose sketches of New York-the New York of Chuck Connors and the unsophisticated Bowery and the old-time bread-line-range odd corners of the city and exhume most curious figures from the dust of the first decade of the century. The Log of A Harbor Pilot describes the tossing existence of that strange race of minor vikings, veteran pinochlers all. The Michael J. Powers Association portrays the glad-hand life of a typical East Side boss-derby-hatted ruler over 40,000 would-be Americans. The Car-Yard...
...York City may be, perhaps, trying to create a reputation for naughtiness which will vie, in attracting visitors, with Paris in summer. At any rate another of those periodic dust clouds about immoral plays has ascended on the zephyrs of Manhattan where jaded country business men, both far and near, may see it. Apparently there has been no official statement of which plays are naughty and whether they are really naughty. In spite of this, the city is filled with a mighty hustle and hurly-burly of reformers, and a general movement of those who might be responsible...