Word: washboard
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...Hyde Park apparently refers to an editorial entitled "1945," which appeared in this column on October 26. Due to the severe restrictions imposed by a penny post card, the correspondent was unfortunately prevented from explaining his position more fully. But, in those times, "12 per week" for a "tin washboard...
...boots, and their prices are "right." The result is that during the long seasonal lulls in Chinese Civil War the soldiers of Feng Yu-hsiang have been busiest and most welcome. Clean and well-disciplined, each member of the mob that is now an army takes his turn with washboard and with...
...example, the Tsarina Cath- arine I was a laundress, the daughter of Lithuanian serfs. She washed some foul breeches so charmingly for a trooper, that a sergeant took her for his doll. From her knobby washboard she vaulted, with the ad- miration of an army corps, beyond the antechamber of Peter the Great. He was a humorist-perhaps the greatest. With a fillip never equaled by another monarch he set his laundress, bouncing and buxom, on the world's tallest throne...
About one hundred yards after passing the bridge all the crews struck very much rougher water; the Sophomore boat which had lost its weather washboard, first felt the effect of the waves and began filling almost immediately. Mr. Lehmann, seeing that there was likely to be trouble, called to the crews that the race was off. Almost as soon as he had done so the Sophomore boat went down. Ninety-eight rowed a few strokes more, when they too sank. A few minutes later '99 also filled...
...trip back to the boat house serious difficulties were met with from the high sea that was running in the river. Fortunately a washboard had been put on the shell a few days before; but, as it was, the crew narrowly escaped swamping...