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Rising and lighting a lamp, the Saint took up his toothbrush, covered the bristles with coarse grey granules, began to scrub. "I am brushing my teeth with contraband salt. I presume I am being arrested for breaking the salt laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Saintnapping | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

Last fall the college fired 20 scrub-women. It had been paying them 35 cents the hour, the legal wage under a Massachusetts statute was 37 cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Evil that Men Do--" | 5/8/1930 | See Source »

...campaign is directed not at the general university employment situation, which is finally being considered, but at the case of the Widener scrub-women upon which, unfortunately, the administration has refused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Still Scrubbing | 5/7/1930 | See Source »

...they could scrub...

Author: By C. C. P. and D. R., S | Title: THE CRIME | 3/18/1930 | See Source »

...year ago, about three miles from Grand Junction, Tenn., a white and liver pointer bitch stopped short crossing a field and stood with her head turned into the wind, toward a patch of scrub oak 20 yards away. A moment later, a bevy of quail slanted into the air and someone blew a whittle. A shot gun went off, loud in the quiet fields, and there was a sudden babble of men's voices. "Did you see her on that last find? . . . As great a bitch as ever won the National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Old Hancock Place | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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