Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sargeant ever wash dishes three times a day 365 days a year-or make three beds every morning of his life-or feed his son and heir at exactly 6, 10, 2 and 6 each day-or diaper the infant every hour on the hour? I am laughing...
...rupees-My first bill at the Cecil, which is really a great hotel. But they've run out of Western whiskies, so now they are serving such tiger wash as "Dew of the Himalayas." They have no beer either, but only stout. Our Bill Fisher likes stout, but he's a Yale...
...splice belts, saw metal cuts, pay bills, chisel cuts, make up newspaper, order supplies, tell people where the local draft board is, tell others where the town's lawyer might be, tell still others that silly rumor they were excited about was only a silly rumor, pay bills, wash forms, distribute type, solicit job printing, pacify irate subscribers whose paper failed to arrive, pay bills, edit bungled copy, collect bills, pay bills, sort mail, scan the exchanges and maybe clip an item...
Bendetsen, with a Stanford law degree, a reserve lieutenancy and an interest in radio and aviation, was practicing law in his Aberdeen, Wash, hometown in 1939 when the Judge Advocate General's Department called him. There, as captain, he helped draft the Selective Service and Soldiers' & Sailors' Relief Acts. Promoted to major, he prepared the War Department's legal steps for taking over two striking airplane plants, organized the alien and war prisoner division of the Provost Marshal General's Office. Later, a lieutenant colonel, he prepared Franklin Roosevelt's executive order that last...
Diaper Dilemma. From coast to coast U.S. diaper services (which supply, collect and wash diapers) were having trouble keeping up services. Numbers of prospective customers are up. Curtailed are diapers, laundresses, plus tires, oil and manpower for the trucks, some of whose horns play Rock-a-Bye Baby...