Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Santa Barbara knew him in its sunny winters. In the summers he repaired to an old fashioned cottage on the oceanward end of Long Island, at East Hampton, lingering there till autumn fogs moved through the scrub-oak and laurels and the wind blew cold over bright dunes. This year he went late to East Hampton, for burial...
Take in one hand plain, unmedicated soap, and in the other a clean tooth brush. Lather the brush. Open the mouth. Scrub...
...world will be plunged into a frozen darkness that will abolish all the living. The reaction to this horrible eventuality of a group of Bowery bums is the thesis. Some get religion and some get drunk. In the centre of it all is a little scrub girl on whose tortured mind the glory of dying and the majesty of immortality slowly burst. Then when the astronomer's mistake is published, she cannot endure life and kills herself. This part is played by June Walker with all the glow and mastery which she showed in Processional and The Glass Slipper...
...That's good," Vera said, "tell him to scrub his dirty neck...
...Football was played at Harvard long before there were any contests between he colleges. Intercollegiate games were gotten up merely as an added enjoyment, not to make the game itself enjoyable; and intercollegiate games were also usually enjoyed in the same spirit as were the scrub games, as I can testify from having played in a Harvard McGill game...