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Word: washerwoman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Herbert Revived | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Only a Washerwoman | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

City fathers pondered the distinction between a washerwoman and a laundry owner, gave it up, referred the problem to City Magistrate Edwin Burgess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Only a Washerwoman | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ledger Man | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: may 11, 1925 | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

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