Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article about how a New York newspaper woman [Rachel McDowell of the New York Times] knelt at the feet of the Pope and kissed his ring [TIME, Sept. 23]. She touched the Pope's hand, let the touch linger, and said she wished she would never have to wash her hand again (ugh!) And she had hysterics! And boasted about it all! You say she is a Presbyterian. I wonder what other Presbyterians think of that. She looks like a good Christian woman, too, that is how insidious the Papists are, worming their crafty way into the confidence...
...white trucks and white-clad salesmen are spotless. For two days each spring the salesmen go to school. There they are instructed to bathe and change their shoes & socks daily, wash their feet with borax water, Epsom salts or ammonia. Each morning a salesman gets a fresh uniform. In making a sale he salutes, says brightly, "Good Humor, may I serve you, sir?" When possible he gets in a word about regulation-size brick ice cream to take home...
...best drawing in pencil, pen, or wash, made directly from nature, of architectural, landscape, or figure subject, by an undergraduate in any of the courses in Fine Arts during the year...
...last year appointed secretary of the commuter organization, the new non-resident social center will provide day students with a lunch room capable of seating over 100 students at a time and a large common room furnished as a lounge for recreation and study, in addition to locker and wash rooms. The dining room, on the east side of the building, is a large room with cream-colored walls, white woodwork, and two fireplaces. The new center will be open only to upperclassmen, Freshmen being permitted to use the dining and library facilities of the Harvard Union...
...Common, locker, and wash rooms of Dudley Hall will be open from Monday through Friday during the college terms from 8.30 to 6.30 o'clock. On Saturday the building will be open from 8.30 to 2 o'clock...