Word: laundrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Famed as laundrymen, restaurateurs, Chinamen have not yet made their mark in aviation. But next month, Dr. Tien Lai Huang, "Chinese Lindbergh," hopes to take off for Hong Kong with a passenger, Anna May Wong, cinema star and daughter of a Los Angeles laundryman. And next month, Harry Rally King, Boston restaurateur, will tour the U. S. in a Pitcairn Mailwing to urge the cause of the Nationalists...
...question of noted sons, Minnesota's tiny Rochester may boast her famed surgeons, the brothers Mayo, but New York's Rochester answers with Cameraman George Eastman and is content. Good music and much education contribute to its civic culture; civic cleanliness is upheld by the barbers and laundrymen, who set aside one week of each year to ply their trade for the city's children, free of charge. In 1927, the barbers offered up 4,000 free haircuts on the altar of municipal tidiness...
...reverberations of this uproar travelled, as the crow flies to the Hotel Bellevue and to City Hall. At the former, a speaker of the Boston Advertising Club calmed the city in general by allusions to the easy life among laundrymen and street cleaners on that side of the Charles. But for City Hall the darts were obviously meant and there they rattled impotently off the shield of Superintendent Crowley's indignation. "Our officers are the finest looking bunch of men in the State" he cried. "One shave a day is enough for them; and as for powdering their noses, laugh...
Their wars do not interest U. S. citizens except objectively, for most Americans cannot tell one tonger from another. It is only within the meagre, squalid, Chinese districts that a war constitutes any menace. These are but the wars of laundrymen, waiters...
...Pittsburgh two On Leong laundrymen crumpled up dead on the sidewalk with blood bubbling from wet bullet holes. The assassin faded smoothly back into the blue, gone...