Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elaborate hall of Lady Vittal das Thackersey's marble villa outside Poona squatted more than 100 persons last week-Hindus, Moslems, Sikhs, Christians-all gazing out on the terrace where on a cot lay what looked like a week's wash, a great bundle of white linen shrouding the living skeleton of Mahatma Gandhi. Month ago, already an owl-eyed lemur of a man. St. Gandhi began a fast in behalf of the Hindu Untouchables, without whose liberation he believes real self-government in India is impossible...
...Kelso. Wash., Albert Seifert. bank robber, was shot in the back and captured by C. A. Button, bank president, while he was escaping with a sack of silver. But C. A. Button was not the hero, said Robber Seifert. It was P. E. Federson. the cashier. "He outsmarted me when he put so much silver into the sack ... so heavy I couldn't run with...
...days), turned over in his coffin, picked up his telephone, asked for long distance, chatted with Ray Richards, buried alive near a hot dog stand in Denville, N. J. Jones told Richards that his grave was in the bed of a dried-up stream, that heavy rains threatened to wash him out, that he intended to stay underground 40 days if he could. Richards told Jones that bandits came to his grave, tried to steal the day's cash receipts, threw burning matches down his air tube, singed his pillows...
...Harvard bridge, the Jayvees had piled up a 1 1-2 length lead over the Midshipmen; but just beyond the bridge they intercepted the wash of an outboard motorboat so that they were almost forced to stop rowing, and the Navy overhauled them by a length...
...quarter of a mile from the finish a police launch that was chasing the speedy outboard motorboat gave the Crimson crew another wash, and the Midshipmen. rowing at 36, got ahead by a deck Stroke Drury raised the Crimson beat from 33 as soon as the wash had subsided; and Coxswain Littlefield spurred the crew by telling them that there were only ten strokes to go when there were actually twenty. Drury and his crew responded with what was the best sprint witnessed this year on the Charles; and they nosed out the Midshipmen by a bare quarter-length...