Word: scrubbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegates were initiated without ceremony, at their hotels, into one of the most famed and entirely innocent of Swedish customs. Upon ringing for a bath, they were led down the corridor by a woman exactly resembling in age, attractiveness and dress the ordinary U. S. "scrub-woman." Unsuspecting, many U. S. delegates entered the bathroom, closed the door, disrobed and got into the tub. The Swedish bathwoman, having retired during this interval, suddenly re-entered without warning, soaped and scrubbed the delegate in question, then applied a towel as large as a sheet, patting vigorously until...
...Selden, L. I. Chief Fire Ranger Clarence Dare insisted that a fire which raged last week over 6,000 acres of scrub oak and stunted pines, driving before it and suffocating, singeing, roasting a stampede of deer, foxes, rabbits, mice, had all started from a smudge ignited by one Ernest Chenel, 9, to smoke out a skunk...
Furze, meanwhile, marries a waitress whose full bosom heaves with eagerness to scrub the floors he walks on. She, Rose, shares his passion for the practical, his desire to toil and spin and then plough fields to get up a sweat. With her he is happy...
Stark Love depicts customs and manners of sequestered mountain folk, North Carolina. Director and Author Karl Brown got them to act their primitive lives before his camera. The natives use no makeup, register no artful emotions. Men sleep, hunt, fish, sleep. Women hoe, bear children, scrub dishes, chop wood, cook, clean, bear children. The men live longer. The mere projection of such crude civilization, the knowledge that it still persists among lineal descendants of American settlers is enough to make the film's substance fascinating...
...Blue puck men have been hampered by a scarcity of ice in their vicinity, and should present no very formidable opposition. Captain Luce at right wing will lead the Andover attack. Thus far he has proved the star in their two games in which they defeated a scrub team 4-1 and tied Melrose High with a 1-1 score. HARVARD 1930 ANDOVER Summers l.w. r.w. Luce Lakin r.w. l.w. Frost Harding c. c. Walker Stuart l.d. r.d. MacDougal Timball g. g. Warner