Word: washerwoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never whimpered, not even when his old man laid him cold, and he was first of the gang to find out about sex at first hand. Such accomplishments and wisdom ranked high with his followers: Wickie Winters, scabby-faced, half-dressed, half-wit son of a washerwoman; Cockie Werner, whose only talent was catching frogs; Nutsie Doane, also ordinary, except for a crooked arm, the result of having a broken arm re-broken by his drunken...
...there are few native women who have the urge to play golf. When, last week at Manila, a bevy of ladies were primping and practicing for the first round of the women's open golf championship, there were many Americans and Europeans, only one Filipina. She was a washerwoman. Strong-armed Dominga Capati, who learned the game when she made friends with a caddy near her employer's estate, was not at all abashed by her classy opponents. The field was strong but she was stronger. With lusty drives and delicate putts, Dominga Capati gave the whole field...
...entertainers have ever had the success on Continental stages of honey-skinned, good-natured Josephine Baker. Born in St. Louis 30-odd years ago of an allegedly white father & a colored washerwoman, Josephine's education stopped with grade school. At the age of 14 she was already hoofing in second-rate St. Louis vaudeville houses, where she met and married one Billy Baker, a tap dancer who brought her to New York and eventually found her a job in the chorus of the No. 2 road company of Shuffle Along. In Philadelphia, fame came to her one evening when...
...Lucian decided he would be safer across the river in Windsor, Ont. But Canadian law permitted the immigration of no slaves. So Lucian Fletcher married dusky Mary, settled down in Windsor's Negro district. In 1861 the Canadian census recorded the Fletcher household as consisting of Lucian. "one washerwoman, Mary Fletcher," and four pickaninnies: Sally. Moses. Maria, Sampson. Shortly thereafter a tax list reported Mary as "Mrs. Fletcher, widow and free-holder...
...Comstock Lode on the side of Mt. Davidson at Virginia City, Nev., has always been a surprise package. Discovered in 1859, its glory holes enriched Sandy Bowers, an illiterate Missouri teamster, made his washerwoman bride, Eilly Orrum. Queen of the Comstock. Its abandoned workings, bought in 1872 for $100,000, in four years yielded $100,000,000 to its four new owners-Irishmen William S. O'Brien, James C. Flood, James G. Fair and John W. Mackay-father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Mackay. In 1907 a fall of rock disclosed a $1,000,000 pocket of gold...