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Word: washes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clarkston, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...Daily News set the ransom at $100,000.) Ed couldn't seem to remember the kidnaping, his connection with the policy racket, or anything else. But Bronzeville's memory was excellent. From the pool and dance and spiritualist halls to Dr. Pryor's Holy Floor Wash Factory and King Solomon's Temple of Religious Science, there was holiday. Big Ed was back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The Emperor Jones | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Mickey Finn. In Tacoma, Wash., a truant monkey for three days scampered through treetops, across rooftops, was finally brought down by a banana doped with sleeping pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Bill Johnson, 64, from Snohomish, Wash., a veteran of the Yukon who says that prospecting in Yellowknife "is easier than anywhere else," was chief cook at the Con mine until 1938. Since then he has staked 34 claims, now has several hundred thousand shares of gold stock worth anywhere from 17? to 50?-a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: The Forty-Sixers | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Only Bette Davis, by sincere overacting, gets this piece going at all; the rest of the cast is about as interesting as wet wash. A limp example: the uncle (Charlie Ruggles) who continually maunders, "Is there anything I can do?" Many cinemaddicts may yearn to snarl, "Yes. go away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

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