Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found time, at the behest of Emma Bouvier, his French second wife, to embrace Roman Catholicism and to bring up his daughters Elizabeth, "Kate," and Louise in quiet piety. Small Daughter Kate he took to see the Pope, and in the early 1880's to Tacoma, Wash, where she secretly gave $100 from her dress allowance for a statue of the Blessed Virgin in an Indian mission. In trepidation she confessed, but her father approved, in a manner quite unlike that of the bad Victorian father of Elsie Dinsmore. In 1883 Banker Drexel died, leaving Kate the income from...
...Okla. 2 1 2 Ore. 4 1 0 Penn. 95 26 22 R. L. 28 9 3 S. D. 1 0 0 S. C. 0 1 0 Tenn. 3 2 1 Texas 5 13 0 Utah 2 0 3 Vt. 6 0 1 Va. 5 9 3 Wash...
Shahn's method is simplicity itself. In all scenes he uses a wash and fine ink lines. The backgrounds are almost uniformly a depressing blue. Seldom has any modern painter so eloquently depicted his subjects with such an economy of line. Every delineation is expressive, every curve is significant. There is something stark, some terrible frozen fear in every face. Shahn's creations seem to be cowering under some upraised fist...
...Olympia, Wash., when the police got a telephoned call for help from the house of N. J. Hays, they investigated, received the complaint of the Hays's small son whose mother had just spanked...
Construction crews followed the timber cruisers. Mills were erected at Longview, Wash, on the Columbia River to secure water transportation to world markets. Railroads were built 30 mi. into the hills to lug down the logs. Plunked down in the wilderness, the entire city of Longview (pop. 10,500) was constructed for employes. Long-Bell became the world's largest lumber company. Then, two years after the Northwest operation was begun, said Founder Long, "the lumber business just dried up." Dividends were passed in the autumn of 1927, earnings shriveled and last spring Long-Bell failed to pay its bond...