Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl from the Salvation Army rattles her tambourine in front of Hayes-Bickord's. The spirit of this, the joyous season, made an especially strong impression upon a friend of ours who recently received a message from the laundry, or, as he expressed it, "the place where they allegedly wash my clothes." As he opened the envelope two cards dropped out. One was decorated gaily with green holly, snow-capped countryside, and shiny red ribbon. It said...
...States, 22 have direct access to tidewater. Busy though far inland are such U. S. ports as Houston, Tex., 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico; Portland, Ore., 112 miles, and Seattle, Wash., 143 miles from the Pacific; New Orleans, 107 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi...
Chapter 6. By the summer of 1935, however, Radio was ready to wash its hands of an unhappy stepchild. In the autumn Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp., biggest U. S. investment trust, paid Radio $5,000,000 for half of its interest in RKO, with an option on the rest to be exercised before the end of 1937. Joining Atlas in the purchase was Lehman Bros., interested in Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corp...
...Seattle, Wash...
...much the same fashion as a sweepstakes victor gets his good news, in Seattle, Wash. last week Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was awakened in his rented house over-looking Puget Sound to be told by his wife (Actress Carlotta Monterey) that he had just won $39,314. Professor Sophus Keith Wintrier of the University of Washington had telephoned her that the Associated Press had telephoned him that the Nobel Foundation had awarded Playwright O'Neill its 1936 literature prize and the newspaper boys were on their way out. Lounging in old pants and sweater at the side...