Word: washing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lives today in an apartment on a street called Linwood Place in St. Paul, Minn. Aged 68, he is tall, rawboned, mustached. His eyes are pale blue. He dresses neatly and simply-black hat, oldtime wash necktie (or a hook-on bow), celluloid collar. His automobile is a 1927 Studebaker. He does not drive it. Neither does he drive golf or tennis balls. He chews tobacco, spits the juice. He plays solitaire, reads Shakespeare, keeps a garden farm near Granite Falls, Minn. A widower, he has a daughter named Laura, who drives the Studebaker and keeps the house. Last week...
This bottled clue, picked up last week on Westport Beach, Aberdeen, Wash., was thought to determine the fate of the plane Miss Doran, carrying Mildred Doran, Michigan schoolmistress and two men, which disappeared last year during a flight from Oakland, Calif., to Honolulu (TIME...
Rejoined Mrs. Strom, irate: "I run no laundry. I hire no help. I am only a washerwoman. No fault-finding Carrolls can stop me from taking in wash and hanging it out in the yard...
...Will Rogers, in the only daily syndicate feature carried by the New York Times, wrote: "Am here at Winona Lake, Ind. It's to the Presbyterians what the River Jordan was to those foreigners over there in the old days. These meet here to wash their sins away every Summer. Will Hays will be here as soon as he comes from Hollywood...
...could not have pointed with pride to the texture, the shape, the odor of her product. It would have been coarse, ill-shapen, irritating to the skin, offensive to the nose. Guests would have shunned the White House bathrooms. Servants would have departed in disgust and fury rather than wash dishes with thrifty, housewifely soap. Wisely, Mrs. Coolidge chose to purchase soap made of the finest oils, boiled in steam-heated, 1,000,000-lb. urns, purified of complexion-destroying acids, perfumed with flowered scents, shaped to beguile both hand...