Word: laundryman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sixth coach in 13 years. Washington fans, who put the 'Skins ahead of the home-town university teams in their football favor, thought the change might cause at least one twinge of regret in George Preston Marshall, the ex-hoofer, ex-Hearst publisher (Washington Times) and millionaire laundryman who once exclaimed at a dinner party: "Congratulate me, folks, I've finally arrived socially-today I got the sheets of Mrs. Borden Harriman." Washington thought George would miss having a vice admiral to order around...
Cracked Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker, whose social world, café society, is a cut below the Social Register's: "The joke of the whole thing . . . is that the Social Register has no more right to the vestige of authority it has assumed than our Chinese laundryman...
Last week, while Johnson prepared to take over Labor Department administrative functions, "Lew the Laundryman" seemed ready to wash his hands of the whole distressing business...
Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo slipped through an anti-Bilbo picket line around his Washington apartment-by disguising himself as a laundryman with a sack slung over his shoulder. "I just went on about my country's business," he crowed...
Going My Way. In Chicago, OPA closed in on Laundryman Chow Yew, who advertised...