Word: washerwoman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transplanted washerwoman wears ''a Paris cremation," a doubtful diplomat describes a rare piece of carpet as "hard to beat...
Rejoined Mrs. Strom, irate: "I run no laundry. I hire no help. I am only a washerwoman. No fault-finding Carrolls can stop me from taking in wash and hanging it out in the yard...
City fathers pondered the distinction between a washerwoman and a laundry owner, gave it up, referred the problem to City Magistrate Edwin Burgess...
There is every reason to believe that Mr. Rockefeller began to lay his tracks in Ledger A. For example, note his first entry: "September 26, 1855?January i, 1856: received $50 (wages). Paid board and washerwoman. Saved a little. Gave penny each Sabbath to Sunday School...
Madame Sans Gene (pronounced san-Géne) was a play written in 1893 by Victorien Sardou, based on a well-known story of the Napoleonic period about Sergeant Pierre null Joseph Lefebvre (later made general, marshal. Duke of Danzig) who married a blan-chisseuse (washerwoman) to the French guards. She, Catharine Hubscher, never varnishing over her early manners, acquired the nickname Madame Sans Géne, rather freely translated as Mrs. Uncouth...