Word: unwashedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turning up unwashed and unshaved in Baltimore after being marooned in a Pittsburgh hotel, General Hugh S. Johnson told how he had lived for two days on beer and seltzer water, how one woman guest had taken a bath in three cases of ginger ale. Said he: "It was the...
In three words: They Were Unwashed! The drains of Clark House became clogged, an incident which necessitated the meagerest and, in most cases, the most insufficient use of soap and water.
To show how the unwashed ladies of the Renaissance looked at their best, Mrs. Thomas has sketchily copied France's Diane de Poitiers, a German artist's Venus, naked except for picture hat and necklace, and a Botticelli model. Facing them, smart, stingy Queen Elizabeth of England, decked...
Our next to godly professor thereupon stripped under the Sinaitic sun, and began to pour water over himself, while crowds of little native children, gathering to get a ringside view of this naked Brobdingnagian, began to point at him and repeat something in Arabic over and over again. No mean...
But there's this to be remembered; nations will have arms in this scrabbled epoch, L. of N. or no. The arms traffic will continue by hook or crook. Publicity is not the weapon, however, with which to control. The very thought of publicity let loose on the normal, necessary...