Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yakima, Wash, and up & down the Shenandoah Valley, U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge was last week gratefully known as "the man who saved the Winesaps." The French embargo on all fresh fruit from the U. S. (and particularly apples) was broken...
Here let me wash my spotted soul From crimes of deepest...
...take any wooden money" is a traditional piece of rustic advice. But last month, when the bank failed at Tenino, Wash., ten miles from Olympia, two doctors and a newspaper publisher issued coins cut out of veneer plywood and Tenino took them. Security for the wooden coinage was the town's faith in these three men and the dividends which the collapsed bank will pay when its affairs are liquidated. Last week Tenino's money was not only as good as gold; it was better. Numismatists were offering as high as one U. S. dollar bill...
...Baths, wash basins and toilets should be in separate rooms, thus multiplying the effective uses of their services. And "we have to do something soon about the slipperiness of our bath tubs which are a thousand times as dangerous to life & limb per entry as railroad travel and two hundred times as dangerous as going around in airplanes...
Here let me wash my spotted soul...