Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quebec's Citadel the King and Queen slept in narrow beds in separate rooms, with a low door between. The door had a knocker on each side. Though the King and Queen had running water in their private bathrooms, members of their entourage had to use old-fashioned wash basins. "The wash bowl sets," added thoroughgoing Miss Tighe, "are absolutely complete...
Glamor Guys. The younger school of illustrators is, in technique, distinguished for lucid wash drawing, "suggestion" and glamor. Its pioneer artist is Italian-born John La Gatta, 45, a mustachioed believer in the tall brunette and one of the few big-money illustrators who providentially salted his earnings away in real property (on Long Island Sound, with a yacht) before 1929. La Gatta's specialty is swooningly sleek backs. The sex appeal which is La Gatta's stock-in-trade has been parodied by Yaleman Peter Arno in the most devastating battles of black & white in contemporary drawing...
...dignity of the Indoor Athletic Building suffered a severe shock recently when a large laundry truck parked outside the building. On its side was painted a large safety pin and beneath it, the motto "We like to wash them. You don't." The truck was a messenger of the Dydee Laundry...
Meanwhile, in Spokane, Wash., National Education Association's President Reuben T. Shaw lamented: "The U. S. is farther from universal education, to which the public looks for preservation of the fundamental traditions of democracy, than it was 100 years...
Beaver dams are useful to man. They catch fine silt that otherwise would wash down stream. Beaver ponds may provide water for livestock, and conserve moisture in dry areas...