Word: washing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...society its name, form the staple. There is in the same society a man named Swiddle. He passed with much distinction the initiation, the chief feature of which is, that the neophyte is obliged to eat a dozen tarts three inches in diameter in ten minutes, and to wash them down with six tumblers of Fresh Pond water. In Swiddle's case the water was dispensed with, owing to a recent drowning accident, and he ate eighteen tarts within the time, having forty-five seconds to spare. Swiddle is a handsome man, who dresses to perfection, ordering his clothes from...
...worse than all, for the last three weeks the baths have stopped running entirely; this, we understand, being done by order of the College. Perhaps the authorities consider that we have had a sufficient number of baths this year, or that the warmth of the season enables us to wash with cold water; but it really does not strike us in that light. We would warmly, if we could, advise the College to take into its own hands the care of these bath-rooms, especially since they are the only ones we have; the same man might be employed...
BLAKEY has finished the eight-oared barge for the University crew. It is built of white-pine, with mahogany wash-boards. A small keel covered with iron will protect the bottom in some degree from shoals and other obstructions. The dimensions are 47 feet by 38 inches; those of a six-oared barge are 44 feet by 26 inches...
...evening Hooker, acting as coxswain, coached Sherman and Cameron in the Sophomore pair-oar. They pulled up stream as far as the toll-bridge on Morgan Street, where, about six o'clock, the swell of a tug-boat, passing at some distance from them, caused the water to wash over the bow of the boat, and gradually filled it through holes in the canvas. The oarsmen, having their backs to the bow, were unaware of their impending danger, until that part of the boat began to sink and the water to penetrate into the middle compartment. Sherman...
...sort of infant prodigy in the mustache business, and remember very well how my mother once sent me, when a little boy, from the dining-room back to my bedroom, to wash my upper lip. She is near-sighted, but discovered her mistake afterwards. I began soon after that to take a regular shave, at first once a month, then gradually the interval was diminished to a fortnight, a week, and finally half a week. The more I cut off the down the faster and thicker it grew; and as I am averse to all duties that have...