Word: towel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hadley. Mass., vexed with his wife, Antoni Ciaglio slyly rubbed poison ivy leaves upon her clothes, her towel. The sweat of her farm work hastened the action of the poison. She almost died. Police arrested sly Antoni Ciaglio, charged him with assault...
...torch-song" singer (Little Shows, Three's a Crowd); and Smith Reynolds, 20, tobacco scion of Winston-Salem, N. C. His first marriage was in 1929 to Anne L. Cannon of Concord, N. C. at 2 a. m. in York, S. C. with the bride's father (towel tycoon) and a policeman attending. When he becomes 28, Bridegroom Reynolds will receive the $20,000,000 estate of his father, the late Richard Joshua Reynolds...
...plaintiff did not wish the end of his said moustache cut. and wilfully and maliciously intending to cause said plaintiff disfigurement, humiliation, ridicule and mental and physical suffering and discomfort, did then and there with force and arms assault said plaintiff and laid hold of him and, placing a towel over his eyes to blindfold him, did . . . cut off both ends of his said moustache and closely crop same...
...King himself of Maundy Money to worthy old people of the Parish of Westminster, a custom established by Edward III in 1363 in commemoration of Jesus' washing the disciples' feet after the Last Supper. Jesus of Nazareth performed the original pedilavium stripped, girded in a towel. Even the early Plantagenets kept their clothes on and no British King has washed any feet for centuries. The money, which comes from the King's privy purse, has been distributed every year by Abbey clergy. No King has taken part in the ceremony since James II died more than...
...last week's revival, King George washed no feet, wore no towel. Only survival of the pedilavium ritual was the towel-like sash of linen worn by the King's Almoner. King George in the costume of an English gentleman handed each of the 67 men and 67 women (one of each for each year of his age) a scarlet purse containing ?2 108 in gold, to take the place of the new clothing they are supposed to receive, and a white purse containing 67d in specially minted silver coins. At the week's end the recipients...