Word: washes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cincinnati stood the heavy-jowled boss of Chicago. Glum, pouting, he clutched in his hand the manuscript of a wet and undelivered oration. In vain he sought the attention of crowds toiling on the levees. Had he ventured too near, shotguns would have banged and rifles crashed. The wash of his steamers menaced tottering dikes...
...once unpopular. The motor-loving young men of Princeton baited him by all means-by roller-skating noisily, by driving horse-and-buggies, by wearing placards. The Princetonian (campus daily) headlined in its burlesque issue: "GAUSS'S SHAME." A senior, George Lambert, sporting scion of Listerine (mouth wash, etc.), inspired university admiration by bringing to town an airplane and droning over the campus in it. Airplanes were not mentioned in the Gaussian edict against motor vehicles...
...Monday, known to so many human beings as wash day, and to so many more as just another week, brings compensations. And today, in particular, should be heralded with clash of cymbal and blare of trumpet. Today opens the Pops...
...Milwaukee, where? he went into pork packing with John Plankington, after whom the Plankington Hotel there was named, It's bartenders used to be adept at mixed drinks; its present chef prepares a capon just a little less appetizingly than does the chef of the Winthrop Hotel at Tacoma, Wash...
...city of Carlisle was deodorizing its wastes-by carbolic acid. He slopped carbolic acid on the open wounds of accident cases brought to him. The acid worked; it prevented development of horrid "hospital gangrene." Joseph Lister had discovered antisepsis and thenceforth surgery became cleanly. Surgeons now wash their hands before operating; and they wear sterilized gloves, caps and aprons, and even tie gauze masks over their mouths to prevent foul breath contaminating the entrails of patients. Many surgeons realize the "why" of their precautions; most take their procedure for granted. Lister to them, as to the vast majority of their...