Word: washes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...native Australia, she tells the story of an eventful, glamorous career, beginning with her struggles as Mrs. Nellie Mitchell Armstrong to interest someone in her voice, her study with Marchesi, eccentric old lady who could not tolerate Nellie's one winter dress and would not let her wash her hair for fear of taking cold. There are more memories than melodies. There are tales of de buts and ovations, of how Peche Melba got its name, of the War work that made her a Dame of the British Empire. There are tales, of practical jokes, most of them expensive...
After that he poureth water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe (them) with the towel wherewith he was girded...
...fireworks over, a vote was taken. As the Baldwin steam roller crunched, Sir Austen was sustained 325 to 136. None the less, his prestige has undoubtedly suffered. Quoth a wag: "Sir Austen may yet drown in his own pail of white-wash...
...Manila, in Honolulu, in Tientsin, in the Canal Zone, in Burlington (Vt.), in Camp Lewis (Wash.), in San Francisco, in Minneapolis, in Tidewater (Va.), in Columbus (Ga.) and Columbus (O.), in Chicago, in Manhattan, in Boston, in St. Louis, in San Antonio, in Atlanta, in Portland (Me.), there were dinners given one night last week, "annual assemblies" of the graduates of West Point...
Gray waves wash over Lyonesse...