Word: washing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrewd divorce lawyer, marries a millionaire lumberman. While the organist fingers, "O Promise Me," she figures the alimony. Knowing this, the young husband shows his virtuosity as a shrew-tamer. He takes her to a hunting lodge, turns soft living into hard, makes her tote wood, build fires, wash dishes, pose for him, behave herself. At last he drives figures out of the brain of the amateur gold digger. John Mack Brown is the successful husband of this successful picture...
...Sunday made another prophecy, anent his stop in St. Louis. "We'll talk about the campaign we held here for millions of years." he said. With parables and epigrams he summarized the serious topic of his sermon, Eternal Life: "Man tries to whitewash himself when God wants to wash him white. . . . Don't let God hang a 'For Rent' sign in the mansion he's prepared...
...used to shuffle cards like this," he said, "in a wash basin. It's such fun. You let your fingers roam down through them till you feel a big flat book. Then you make a wish. Like this, for instance...
...fashions do the festivities of celebration invoke a painful celebration that is conducive to the thumbing of leaves. After all, the sheet is clean, and since one makes one's own bed and has to lie in it, it does seem too bad to dirty the linen. Writers can wash it in public, but most people rounding the curve and seeing the straight stretch are too weak not to determine to keep the sprint unimpeded. And so they make resolutions, and are the better for it; and break them and are the worse for it. It is wearying...
...young lady shall become a member of Mt. Holyoke Seminary who cannot kindle a fire, wash potatoes, repeat the multiplication table, and at least two-thirds of the shorter catechism...