Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bring down blinds, wash and hang them...
...Paterson, N. J.; Bertram H. Loewenberg 1L, of Roxbury, Mass.; Donald L. McCaskey 1L, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Frank J. Meistrell 1L, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; William L. Owen 1L, of Excelsior Springs, Mo.; Alexander G. Sanderson, Jr. 1L, of Texarkana, Ark.; Sidney D. Spear 1L, of Cashmere, Wash.; Solon J. Stone 1L, of Buffalo, N. Y.; William W. Wirtz 1L, of DeKalb, Ill.; Adrian W. DeWind 1L, of Newton, la.; Samuel C. Shoolman 1L, of Rochester...
Suppose you are a chimney sweep named G. J. Kite. You wait and wait for the chimneys of Windsor Castle to need sweeping. You cannot offer to sweep them. Finally you are asked, and up the chimney you go. Emerging sooty but elated you wash up, present yourself at the Lord Chamberlain's office and state the facts. If the Lord Chamberlain pleases he may appoint you, as he has appointed G. J. Kite, "By Royal Warrant Chimney Sweeper to His Majesty the King...
This week elegantly-tailored Premier Flandin crosses the English Channel with his messy-looking, franc-pinching Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, who wears white wash ties even in the dead of winter. Once again it seemed probable that weary old Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald would be cheered and heartened by the dynamic young Frenchman. The last time Flandin and MacDonald made a night of it in London (TIME, April 18, 1932) the Scot said afterward, "Conversation was free and easy-a sort of smoker which was in no sense a Quaker meeting!" That was apropos of the Danube Conference, which...
Died, Admiral Robert Edward Coontz, 70, onetime (1923-25) Commander-in- Chief of the U. S. Fleet; of heart disease; in Bremerton, Wash...