Word: scrubbings
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...most often comes on the feet, one should not go barefoot even in one's own home, never in a carpeted hotel room, ship cabin, or train compartment. At public bathing places, wear bathing slippers. Careful club managers provide paper treaders for guests. Custodians of showers and pools should scrub the floors several times daily. Soap and hot water suffice to flood out trichophyta...
...sailor, apparently an orphan, in an unlikely story which serves no purpose beyond the unnecessary one of advertising the U. S. Navy. In the improbable and not very amusing incidents which lead to Montgomery's union with an admiral's daughter, he is called upon to scrub decks, have both eyes blacked by a bosun's mate, wear a borrowed tailcoat which gets wet. He maintains, in spite of these handicaps, an air of stubborn frivolousness. When his girl refuses to speak to him he makes his disappointment hilarious in one line by saying...
...practice voyage. Tige's jaws were clamped bulldoggedly; he soared aloft. Valiantly, for five minutes, he clawed space and the yielding rope for a foothold. At 400 ft. of altitude, his jaws relaxed and he plunged downward, spinning, and smashed his life out in a forest of scrub pine and sand...
Undergraduate reactions have been vigorous. Even the comparatively dignified Harvard Crimson (daily) has published satiric verses on the scrub subject. When, last May, the Harvard Square Deal Association gave a benefit "Scrubwomen's Ball" for the Lamont Fund and got two of the women, Mrs. Mary Hogan and Mrs. Annie Mclntyre. to act as chaperons, six students attended in a buggy, one of them astride an old white horse...
...only an appendectomy, but they let me scrub alone...