Word: trash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first peer started life "Dressin of skins for briches & glovs," would probably never have grown too big for his briches had he not spent every penny of his savings buying up U.S. "Continentals" and state securities-and harvesting a fortune when the infant Congress decided to redeem such "trash." Yankee Trader Dexter's finest feats included selling 42,000 warming pans and cargoes of mittens to the warm West Indies and, on the solemn advice of a practical joker, shipping a large quantity of coal to Newcastle. The warming pans were used as ladles in a sugarmaking factory...
...England competition comprised 172 paintings and drawings, and 34 examples of sculpture. The quality of the first category was high, with only four or five pieces of utter trash. The first prize in painting went for some reason to Fannie Hillsmith's "Pink Sofa," with other awards to Justin Curry, Glen Krause, Beverly Hallam, Henrik Mayer, John McClusky and Teal McKibben...
Your May 27 description of Seattle as a city ashamed is a lie, and your buildup of Senator McClellan is disgusting trash. Compare the working man's lot in Seattle to that in Arkansas, and you'll see that McClellan is the one to be ashamed. Apparently this whole investigation is staged to drum up public support for Mr. McClellan's repressive labor-legislation goals...
...Parker) married to a British bacteriologist (Bill Travers) but carrying on with a French business man (Jean Pierre Aumont) in Hong Kong. When her husband finds out, he (of course) packs her off posthaste to the nearest outbreak of cholera. Her character immediately begins to improve. The local white trash (George Sanders) philosophically assures her that Schnapps ist gut für die Cholera. But at the sight of a corpse the heroine clutches her throat theatrically and gasps: "It makes everything else seem horribly trivial...
...Hamlet (TIME, April 1, 1940), Faulkner told how Flem Snopes, a repellent specimen of white trash, sidled into Frenchman's Bend. Now, in The Town (the second book in an intended trilogy), Faulkner takes Flem Snopes from his earlier triumphs over the steppingstones of other men's dead selves to higher things in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha's county seat (which closely resembles Oxford, Miss., where Novelist Faulkner has lived for most of his life...