Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long, was called a lintel, although its scanty margins indicated that it was used not over a doorway but as a wall tablet. Parts of the carving were effaced, but by squeezing every available clue Miss M. Louise Baker, experienced archeological artist, was able to make a wash-drawing reconstruction of the original...
First tobacco Duke to betray an interest in higher education was old Washington ("Wash") Duke who in 1891 gave $100,000 in cigaret stocks to little Trinity College in Durham, N. C., when that Methodist institution was crusading against the weed he sold. Since then "Wash" Duke's progeny have made Trinity into a fabulously rich educational duchy. Late Son James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, who was permitted to rename it Duke University for $17,000,000 in cash, also gave Duke an eventual 32% of the income from his Duke Endowment, whose $53,000,000 portfolio holds not only...
...QUIET LODGER OF IRVING PLACE- William Wash Williams-Dutton...
...admiring but not very clear. portrait of their author, and suggests, as its most valuable contribution, something of the flavor of life in easy-going newspaper and Bohemian circles in pre-War New York. A young reporter on the New York Sunday World when he met 0. Henry, William Wash Williams was dazzled by him from the first. The Quiet Lodger of Irving Place consequently tells little that is new about the lodger, but is a nostalgic guide book to Irving Place in the days when it was bounded by Tom Sharkey's Saloon, 'Bony Pastor...
Born in Seattle, Wash. in 1894, Tom Hamilton learned to fly at about the age most humans learn to swim. At 14 he had already built and flown gliders of his own, thereby earning his credentials as one of the earliest of "The Early Birds," a U. S. society composed of people who flew before Dec. 17, 1916.* But his most precocious exploit was the organization, at 15, of a company to make airplane propellers. Businessman and barnstormer at 21, Hamilton went to Vancouver, B. C. in 1915 to teach the Royal Air Force. While there he opened another propeller...