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Word: washing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still does, but with his wife's body. The husband has to fit a dress on a friend, and the wife gets indignantly repulsed for interfering. The husband goes into the bathroom and comes out saying, "How inconvenient." The wife gets arrested for walking into a woman's wash room in a hotel. The wife has to tell the husband that he's going to have a baby. Similar situations of varying degrees of crudity and subtlety, with a preponderance of the former, make up the subject-matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

...Spokane, Wash, flyer named Nick Mamer won a New York-Spokane air race. Two years later Nick Mamer made the first round-trip flight between St. Paul and Seattle, presently started an airline between Spokane and St. Paul. Though part of this route spans some of the most tortured country in the U. S. and there were no radio beacons or even lights in those days, Nick Mamer's success convinced the U. S. Post Office that the run was feasible. Northwest Airlines, which had begun flying between Chicago and St. Paul in 1926, thereupon absorbed both Nick Mamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flaming Arrow | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...thought he heard him saying: "This is Psychiana, the power that will bring new life to a spiritually dead world." Next day the drug clerk wrote the cotton broker: "You are to be associated with me in this business. Please send $40,000." Fortnight later, a bank in Spokane, Wash. informed Robinson that $20,000 had been deposited to his account, that Mr. Birley promised $20,000 more the following week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Money-Back Religion | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...much alike except for Dopey who, being younger, has no beard, the seven dwarfs have timid hearts: they know Snow White is the Queen's step-daughter and will not keep her till she promises to make gooseberry pie. Snow White will not let them eat until they wash their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...floor area is left clear by day. At night, sitting on the bed the occupant has11 in. in which to swing his feet, but a roomette's real advantage is that morning or night the passenger can dress, undress and wash with the bed shoved up out of the way. Big disadvantage appears to be that at night the bed has to be moved out of the way before the toilet can be used. The roomette's door slides back into the wall and may be locked, or left open, steamship fashion, with a curtain drawn over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Roomettes | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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