Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witnesses?Messrs. Lee Sam. Wing and Soo Lee?a Lawyer and Henry Chang. Chinese Consul. They complained that Irving Moskowitz and Max Rudikoff. respective proprietors of the Algonquin and Columbia Laundries, had displayed posters in their windows which Mr. Wah considered an affront to all Chinese, particularly those who wash clothes...
Last week the American Weekly retold as current news the fascinating story of Charles Lange of Port Townsend, Wash., a whimsical businessman who, having raised a school of salmon trout from the egg, keeps them in a pool beneath his office window, trains them to rise at his call, eat from his hand, even jump from the water through a hoop...
Swart as a Greek, this compact little Auvergnat (son of a village butcher in Auvergne, south-central France) was a Senator of no party, an Independent. The public neither knew that he always wears a white wash tie (cheapest and unfading) nor cared to figure out that his name spells itself backward as well as forward. Addicted to scowling, didactic (he once taught school), possessed of a mellow but unexciting voice, identified with no conspicuous cause or movement, Senator Laval was also too young to be noticeable in France in January 1931. He was only 47 and France likes...
...newspaper space, but Tusko, reputed to be the world's largest captive elephant (six tons), has had more than his share. Despite this, and though he is grey, not white, Tusko has been a trial & tribulation to a succession of owners. Because he ran wild in Sedro Woolley, Wash., the Al G. Barnes Circus gave him to a carnival operator. The carnival operator left him at the Oregon State Fair. Two months ago the fair board sold him to Elephant Trainers Bayard Gray and Jack O'Grady for his board bill ($200). Messrs. Gray & O'Grady kept...