Word: towel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work in his shirt-sleeves and bade him by a gesture to continue. Passing on into the news and composing rooms Il Duce greeted many an old employe by name and by clapping him in fatherly fashion upon the back. Pausing before the ink-stained composing room roller towel he beamed and cried with mock-heroic satisfaction: "It's just as black as ever-the color of a good Fascist shirt...
...riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel and girded himself...
After that he poureth water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe (them) with the towel wherewith he was girded...
...noise made by the dogs was loud and horrible. A small, stupid child, like many who attended the dog show, reached out a paw toward a vast belligerent St. Bernard who was lounging in his sawdust covered stall, swathed in a towel lest the slobber from his mouth should stain his sleek and tonsured fur. The St. Bernard lurched bellowing at the child; a collie barked at the St. Bernard; an Airedale yelped at the collie; soon, all the dogs were in a noisy fury. The people whose business it was to care for the dogs were never disconcerted; they...
...ring. Matched against one Tommy Tracy in St. Louis, he escaped to a saloon. Hours afterward his backers found him; shoved him into a buggy; raced for the arena. A train hit the buggy, killing two. Griffo stumbled into the ring drunk, dazed. The bell rang. Griffo, fumbling a towel, swayed to the centre of the ring, bent down to spread the towel. Tracy, ignorant of the rules of the handkerchief trick, hit him a shattering blow behind the ear. Griffo was out. Griffo swelled to 235 pounds before he died. For years too fat for the handkerchief trick...