Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everett, Wash...
...Kansas City surgeon finished probing through his nose and throat, cutting out follicular tissue about his tonsils, Baritone Nelson Eddy elatedly squealed, "Doc, you're making a soprano out of me," broke into Ol' Man River. Gargled he, dancing a jig and forgetfully swallowing the throat wash: "It may seem ironical that a featured singer on a throat remedy radio program [Vick's] must have his throat attended to. ... I am reluctant to say that I am going to have four notes more range and . . . twice the volume...
...Golden Jubilee exhibition honoring George V. Manhattan's Westminster was the biggest in its 61 years. Cruft's* surpassed the Westminster not only in number of entries (4.352 to 3,144) but also in having on display ten Basenjis-little red dogs from the Belgian Congo which wash their faces with their paws, arch their backs when angry, chase lions and emit no sound but "groo," having lost their bark in centuries of silent jungle tracking. The two shows were alike, however, in having on their entry lists more cocker spaniels than any other breed...
...Louis, doctors insisted that Mayor Dickmann sign the ordinance in the interest of public health, though it would require practically all users of soft coal in St. Louis to install new kinds of furnaces. Coal dealers would be obliged to "wash" small-sized coal and hand-pick chunks to prevent sulphuric acid and other products of burning sulphur from getting into the atmosphere. Locomotives would be permitted to belch smoke in St. Louis only for six minutes in any hour while getting up steam in a roundhouse, only one minute while on open tracks...
Walla Walla, Wash...