Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour and a half the Senators hammered away. The burden of what they said: "We have had a lot of promises that action would be taken to clean Communists out of your department. We know this started long before you took over, but this situation has got to be straightened...
Sweden, a country which loves cleanliness, was fed up with its cleaners. They took two weeks or more to clean clothes, and the prices were outrageous to boot. Last week the New York Times reported that some Swedes had found a solution. They send their clothes by airplane to be dry-cleaned in the U.S., get them back within a week...
...said, "has been quite sick again lately. We have the new baby now, which makes three of us besides myself; it is difficult for her to take care of everything." The wife lay In a double bed, and she looked desperately weary. But the sheets on the bed were clean. There was a white cloth on the table and flowers in the window, and the baby thrashed around happily in a clean pink woolen suit. There was an electric cooker-"The food from the kitchens has become a great deal worse recently," the mother said-and the clothes were hung...
Piccadilly Circus was jammed with Londoners and country folk braving showers in summer frocks and flannels. Red bunting, dripping in the rain, hung from the steel railings, and gramophone records blared London Pride. In a clean white apron and battered hat, wizened old Polly Beecham, who has sold her flowers at the foot of the statue for 50 years, was agog with excitement. "I loike 'im," she exclaimed as the returning hero was hoisted into place. "'E's my companion, see?" A dewy-eyed lass in the crowd confessed her devotion just as shamelessly. "I cyme...
Everything was spic & span at No. 2 Piazza dell' Esquilino in Rome last week. Officials of the Argentine Embassy had spent 200 million lire (more than $250,000 at black-market rates) to clean and refurbish the four-story, 40-room building in honor of their house guest, Maria Eva Duarte...