Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help it and likes to rest his brain with carpentry in the Hartswick basement. He did not think up all the Old Gold rebuses himself, but he passed on all 90 of them as submitted by a staff of word-wanglers before they were converted into oafish little wash drawings for the series. The thing was managed so that only Puzzleman Hartswick knew all the right answers...
When onetime President Charles E. ("Sunshine Charlie") Mitchell of Manhattan's National City Bank used the wash-sale technique to reduce his 1929 income tax, and also failed to report a $666,666.67 bonus, he was tried on a criminal charge of tax evasion, acquitted (TIME, May 1, 1933). In a civil proceeding the Board of Tax Appeals then ordered him to pay the evaded tax, amounting to $728,709.84. This week a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan turned down Bankster Mitchell's appeal from that ruling. Big difference between the Mitchell and Du Pont...
...morning when the old Italian returns, raps on the shutters and lets in the sun; and bunch by bunch takes the truant roses to the fountain to wash their sleepy faces, splashing water also on his own, does he ever guess their night's sweet escapade? I suspect he does, but being a bit of a poet himself says nothing: only this little song: "Roses, Roses, Roses: Fresh, young roses." At least so it seems...
Announcer: "I am sorry, ladies and gentlemen; I thought it was Emilie on top of the wash bowl. But all the quintuplets can talk at the bright age of three. Now the girls dress and troop out to breakfast...
Announcer: "The first thing the quintuplets do upon rising with a cheery smile is to--(pause; here the audience should laugh, not altogether but separate, raucous laughs in various parts of the theatre) wash their hands and face. Notice, mothers, how they brush their own teeth themselves. Before, you have seen the girls crawl, walk, and gibber but never talk; now for the first time Emilie, who is squeezing the toothpaste over the nurse's dress, will say "Mais oui' in French...