Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ELGAR HOUGHTON Everett, Wash...
...surgeon would dare operate without rubber gloves. Sterilized, they protect patients from infection, protect the surgeon from accidental cuts and infection from patients. But so serious is Germany's rubber shortage that last week, in a Munich medical journal, patriotic Surgeon Karl Faber advised his colleagues to "wash their hands several minutes longer in order to economize on [dispense with] valuable rubber gloves." Other warlike economies suggested by Dr. Faber: 1) substitution of cloth gloves for rubber except in major operations; 2) laundering of bloody bandages and compresses which are ordinarily thrown away; 3) use of small-sized towels...
...wash your feet
...served a term (1929-31) in Federal prison on McNeil Island, Wash. for income tax evasion, divorced his wife in 1932 because she called him "ex-convict." His current girl: pretty, shapely, dark-haired Barbara Land...
Born in England, Smitty got into photography in 1902 by inviting what he thought were ladies into his studio for portrait work. He went to Canada in 1911 and did military photography. The War took him to Camp Lewis, Wash., where he made lots of money taking pictures of soldiers in uniform to be sent home to wives and sweethearts. He joined the Times...