Word: towel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...long time after railroads became practical for travel there were no provisions for sleeping. People sat up or slept in. the floor filth. Then, in 1836 the Cumberland Valley R. R. of Pennsylvania built some bunks into a second-hand coach. Travelers could use the roller towel, basin and water provided in the rear of the car. It traveled between Harrisburg and Chambersburg, Pa. Later innovations were straw ticks, blankets, cuspidors. Travelers used their carpet bags for pillows...
...gong rings; Mike staggers to his corner, weary, bleeding. Through the ropes springs Mike's marcelled second with water-bucket, sponge, bottle, towel. Mike rests for a short minute while motherly hands wash red from his eyes and mouth, fan his wilting torso. Mike hears calm, sage advice delivered in a motherly tone. Again the gong rings and Mike's second, agile in spite of skirts, leaps back through the ropes. Mike, cheered, comforted, charges forth to battle...
...white men came in, flashed lights, grinned, shouted. At the point of a gun they shuffled the Aliens into an automobile with only a towel more or less to cover their nakedness. Before dawn, white faces and black bodies were in Louisiana. White faces talked with a farmer. White hands took $20 and left black bodies with the farmer...
...train for Sing Sing. It was late when he arrived. The condemned men lay awake in their uncurtained cells in the harshly lighted, white-painted death-house. A Negro was singing a song. That afternoon the black man had tried to commit suicide with a rope made of four towels knotted together. They took the towels away from him, draped a fresh one over his shoulders. As they led him to the death chamber a voice said, "If I could get hold of that towel around your neck, buddy, I'd save the executioner a job on you." Robert...