Word: lave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefit of the Brooklyn Tuberculosis Association. When ''Farmer John" McCooey was shown the pamphlet, he let out a disarming chuckle: ''Why shouldn't the school children have this book? It would prove an inspiration to them to see how the Democratic leaders Lave succeeded . . . (thumbing the leaves). . . . Ho-ho! Here's us highbinders, big as life . . . (spotting his own picture). . . . Ho-ho! Just look at that now. I remember that picture very well. I sort of look like William Howard Taft there but he was a larger...
...that if Gandhi is trying to be a common native himself he doesn't "brush" his teeth. Most natives are quite particular about washing their teeth and mouths. But instead of a brush they use a forefinger and some charcoal on their teeth, and two fingers to lave the tongue, going far enough back to tickle the throat into a convulsion, and of course water to rinse...
...city's most genial visitors lave given such a glowing description of Manhattan subways as Father Robinson: 'With the even rhythm of great pistons n a pumping system, trains of cars slid to and fro. From distant conduits they sucked in their human packing, shot the swaying masses to central arteries, discharged them through clattering turnstiles which enumerated the herd and propelled any who sought to delay with a genial postern whack." Even his criticisms are a left-handed compliment: "[The Americans] fall into mass hysterias on small provocation; they continually suppose themselves on the verge either of calamity...
...Washington's dining at the White House: "I don't mind sayin' that I'd rather ate with a coon thin have wan wait on me. I'd sooner he'd handle his own food thin mine. F'r me, if anny thumb must be in th' gravy, lave it be white if ye please...
...proportion. Yet while Camel cigarets have advertised smoking pleasure, while Chesterfield cigarets have maintained that taste is the cigaret's vital quality, while Old Gold cigarets have compared themselves to Rudy Vallée, radio crooner, and many another swift and contemporaneous success, American Tobacco and Lucky Strikes lave been enjoying prosperity in an unprosperous season, have made profit in an unprofitable year...