Word: washes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President John Adams first occupied it in November 1800. The Adamses found that "twelve roaring wood fires" would not warm it. In the barnlike East Room hung the Adams wash...
...broke her engagement to Private William Farrance of the British Army, whom she had met by mail. Said she: "I have thought the matter over and feel convinced that I shall never be able to settle clown as a wife until I have successfully swum the Irish Channel, the Wash, and the Hellespont. What is the use of letting a man make a home for me when in my thoughts the sea spells 'home, sweet home...
...Columbia winning all of his three bouts. The University team, however, managed to win two of the last three bouts making the final count 5-4. Columbia won easily in the sabre event with a score of 3-1, R. W. Ehrich '30 saving the team from a white wash...
...young Chief Officer Harry Manning and eight oarsmen from the crew. The bow oar spoke Italian. In a shrieking wind, a tortured sea, the lifeboat drew near the Florida. The bow oar translated Officer Manning's commands to the derelict crew. The lifeboat stood off 50 feet, imperiled by wash from the listing vessel, and took off 32 men, with Capt. Favaloro last. Some of the men had prepared knives and poison to commit suicide. They were starved, half-naked, half-crazy. Capt. Fried and Officer Manning got them all aboard the America, landed them in Manhattan...
Appointed. Rev. Robert J. Armstrong, rector of St. Paul's. Yakima, Wash.; to be Bishop of Sacramento, succeeding Bishop Patrick J. Keane...