Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...townspeople awoke to see a huge Cross of Lorraine painted in kaolin* on the broad lawns on the Jardin d' Ambohijatovo on Poincaré Square, where nearly the whole town could see it. Native gardeners were ordered to wash away the Cross with water; it hardened. They dug up the kaolined turf; the Cross remained boldly outlined in the red soil. They filled it in with new grass; for seven days it showed starkly until the grass grew green. Thereafter the new turf grew more green than the old, and the Cross still showed...
Died. Joe Knowles, 73, briefly and widely famed "nature man" of three decades ago; in Seaview, Wash. Emptyhanded, naked except for a loincloth, he entered the Maine woods for a man-v.-nature tussle in 1913, emerged two months later wearing a bearskin, a beard, a splendid sun tan, to win national acclaim and a 20-week vaudeville contract. Later it turned out he had spent most of the time hiding in a cabin with a Boston ex-publicity man, who had written Knowles's "birchbark diary," sent it back to the Boston Post, which printed it regularly, thus...
...back in the U.S. things were just as baffling. At the Fleishhacker Zoo in San Francisco the keepers tried to force a mate on Bill, the polar bear. "She would fiddle with doilies, empty ash trays, wash out his briar pipe with soap and water. . . . When she started hanging his ties on a patented, nickel-plated cedarwood tie rack [with] an automatic clip-shift tie release," Bill murdered her. Author Thurber loves Bill...
...violence. The Governor dispatched State police, two companies of State guards. He also called two Laurel ministers, asked them to try to stop the mob. But by the time ministers and militia arrived, it was too late. Next morning's sun showed the body of Howard Wash hanging from a bridge over Tallahoma Creek...
Forced by the shortage of dining room help to make salads and wash dishes himself, Charles W. Duhig, acting director of student employment, said yesterday that the dining hall situation was approaching a crisis that would have to be solved "if the student body was to continue...