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Word: washes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light was on. A young Negro was in the room, clutching a hatchet. Mrs. Stribling's husband, a powerful man, lay dying in the bed, his head mangled. The Negro chopped at Mrs. Stribling, gashed her over the eye. She begged for mercy. "Well, then, go and wash your face," he said. He went with her, washed his hands. He asked to see her baby and stood over its crib for several minutes. Like a mother partridge playing broken-wing, she begged him to leave the house with her. He took her to the swamps on the edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Omaha | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...white hen of Puyallup, Wash., laid 330 eggs in 365 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Died. Levi W. Hutton, 68, capitalist & philanthropist of Spokane, Wash.; of diabetes; in Spokane. His fortune was made in the lead-silver mining boom in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Most modern is the Hutton settlement in Spokane, where 80 orphans are housed on 300 acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Copley at 8.20 "The Bellamy Trall". Bellamy and Bon Ami, you know. You can wash windows with Bon Ami, but they tell us this is a play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

CARL E. RAYMOND Director, WMC Tacoma, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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