Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific National Fire Insurance Co., a financier by trade. A quick thinker, direct in action, a good organizer, the new national commander set out to fulfill the program given him by the Legion at Miami. That program included getting Congress to appropriate money to develop Soap Lake, Wash., to break off diplomatic relations with Russia, to ratify the Child Labor Amendment, to provide more cemeteries for War veterans. However, Financier Belgrano's chief job is to get cash, $2,000,000,000 of it, for all veterans here...
...Investigator Choukas found overwhelming evidence for the stories he had heard about the perverted tastes of these black-bonneted men of God. Nor was he pleased to find that as regards their bodies, their linen, their tableware, the monks subscribed to an ancient aphorism: ''Who is once washed in Christ needs not to wash again." Author Choukas learned it was better to drink Mount Athos wine than Mount Athos water, which brings on an abdominal bloat. Medical care on the holy mountain turned out to consist mainly of the use of relics and rat oil.* Eleven...
...Tacoma, Wash...
...Chicago, President O. C. Hulett of the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club announced that the diamond-studded gold medal for the best lie of the year had been awarded to Vern L. Osborn of Centralia, Wash. Vern L. Osborn's lie: ' was hunting one day with a mule that I had trained especially for trailing jack rabbits. The chase led to a thousand-foot precipice. The rabbit was going so fast it plunged over the brink...
Potatoes Anglaise cucumber, filet Chateaubriand with truffles, mashed potatoes, spinach with poached egg, escalope of sweetbreads Bordelaise, fresh peas, and to wash it down, frozen claret punch...