Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as she can wash, cook, and dingolay...
...Seattle, Wash...
...plunge of John William Warde from the ledge of a hotel window [TIME, Aug. 8], may I suggest how to handle such cases in the future? Call out the fire department; deluge the waiting, watching mob with high-pressure streams of water. This would have three salutary effects: 1) wash away the morbidity of the mob; 2) clear the streets for traffic; 3) divert the would-be suicide's attention from his own real or fancied woes. Turn about is fair play...
...statue of Washington carved by the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, which for 29 years had ignominiously squatted "in the mud" in Seattle, Wash., was upped to a 27-ft. pedestal near University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery. Found under Washington's feet were three undignified objects: a whiskey bottle cap, a punctured balloon, and a bemired note to "Dear Harry." The note: "Hiya, egg. . . . What have you been doing lately? Do you still go on those long walks like we used to? 'Bye, you snow bat.* Can you read this? If I thought you could...
...above water-3,000,000 across the Pacific, a considerably more arduous trip (see p. 44) than across the Atlantic. While its rivals are out practicing it thinks it can relax till Boeing finishes the first of six 72-passenger Clippers (biggest transport planes in the world) in Seattle, Wash. Unlike the English Composites and the German Catapults, the Pan American Clipper will heave itself out of the water on its own power. But until it or some other U. S. plane is ready to start a regular schedule, no mail, no passengers, will be flown across the North Atlantic...