Word: washin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World's Fair luncheon for visiting mayors in Manhattan Amos 'n' Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll) broadcast an extracurricular skit. Amos: "De emblem o' de fair is really bee-yutiful. Dat tall tower reminds me of de Washin'ton monument; an' dat big ball reminds me. . . ." Andy: ". . . of Jim Farley's haid." They were followed by New York City's little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who assumed an accent and ad-libbed: (As Amos) "No mail today. ... I knew you should'n'a made dat crack about Jim Farley...
...received as compensation for the deaths of three sons who worked in the Gauley Bridge tunnel, claimed : "Shirl's lungs was all gone when they took them out." Later she complained: "We get two dollars a week relief, and I earn one dollar a week takin' in washin'. That helps buy feed...