Word: laundering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laddie can say tapsalteerie he's awa' to the mainland tae hilch himsel' a wife. He haes his courtin' orders: nae Campbells, nae Catholics, and nae lassies from Erismore Isle. An' he haes the cantie assistance, in a' this clishmaclaver, o' Frank Launder an' Sidney Gilliat, the same glib-gabbit couple o' callans as made Wee Geordie (TIME, Oct. 29, 1956) sic a rantin' raible o' sculdudd...
...bluntly declared that "a large number of our military dependent children have for all practical purposes been deserted by their par ents." He blamed "cheap entertainment in the clubs and cheap domestic help in the home." Japanese maids, says Colonel Johnstone, "are expected by some Americans to cook, clean, launder, answer the telephone and be governess, all for $25 a month. And where are the parents in such cases? Out visiting their neighbors and getting tanked...
...Marcus Barth, 43, of the University of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty. The younger Barth denounced U.S. Sunday schools for shunning reality with syrupy sermons that "Mama loves me. Papa loves me, teacher loves me, God loves me. This develops self-centered young egoists." The schools even launder Bible stories so that "Egyptians never drowned, John the Baptist was not beheaded." Urged Barth: "Even eight-year-olds can know that all the world is not rosy . . . Sunday schools should be ahead of the development of the child...
...What's this Last Hurrah business, Mary?" one launder-woman asked the other as they pushed through the crowd outside...
...x428Fy had switched to slotless Van Heusen Collarite shirts--with sewn-in stays! You should, too! These micro-thin stays can't get lost, keep your collar flat, and launder with your shirt! Specify Collarite next time...