Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week an amateur radio operator in Bremerton, Wash., (about 11,000 miles from St. Paul), picked up a garbled message from L'lle Bourbon: "Ran Short Of Coal Due Bad Weather . . . Hope Madagascar Will Send Rescue. . . ." Expecting the worst, the French Government ordered a rescue ship to sail at once from Madagascar...
...that the clean air, the snowy winters with bright skies, the flood of summer sunlight reflecting off the sea, the red barns and white cottages and dry-shingled wharf shacks wash and burn the Thomas Kings and Tom Baileys until they are scraped down to the "cord," leaving their inner texture bare for all to see. There is not that covering of subtlety and finesse which enables people to deceive one another, to appear insincere, to hide true thoughts. But the character of these simple people is so often invisible to us because of this very lack of surface adornment...
...natives now hunted for slopes that would not slide. The alarmed British administration at Castries, the island's seat, conscripted gangs of banana and sugar plantation laborers to keep communications open, evacuate the people to the coast. The rains fell harder. As though the soil were determined to wash back into the sea, avalanches of St. Lucia's black clay poured off the high ground. They blotted out roads, pushed telephone poles over, disrupted all travel and communication. One night an entire acre of ground and a building housing 50 rescue workers gave way, swiftly slipped into...
Election Day in the U. S. is followed by wash day. Dirty linen aired in campaigns, or kept out of sight until afterward, goes into the tub and comes out through the wringer. Last week saw political laundries worked overtime. Most notable part of the week's wash was another big indictment by New York City's crusading paladin, District Attorney Tom Dewey (see p. 13). Elsewhere...
...Sophomores who have had their scholarships renewed are Wiley F. Barker, Santa Fe, N. Mex.; John A. Bradshaw, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Roger E. Clapp, Indianapolis, Ind.; Irving M. Clark, Jr., Bellevue, Wash.; Julian C. Eisenstein, Warrenton, Mo.; Thomas L. Eliot, Winnetka, Ill.; Charles E. Feazel, Jr., West Monroe, La.; Robert D. Forsberg, Hudson, Ohio; Max D. Gaebler, Watertown, Wis.; John W. Goddard, Indianapolis...