Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olympia, Wash., Governor Roland H. Hartley announced that so far as he was concerned, Herbert Franklin Niccolls. 12, who shot a peace officer from behind a grocery store's pickle barrel, would remain in the Walla Walla penitentiary for the rest of his life. Denied was the petition of Father Edward J. Flanagan that the boy be released in his custody, allowed to go to Father Flanagan's home for waifs and waywards near Omaha, Neb. In making his decision public, Governor Hartley did not conceal his irritation at Father Flanagan's intercession. The priest had journeyed from Omaha...
...leading figure in a group of quasi-Communist artists who have become the leaders in the Mexican renaissance: Jose Clemente Orozco, Jean Chariot. Carlos Merida, Pachecho. They worked for a flat rate of $4 (eight pesos) a day and hired a plump little boy to bring them water and wash their brushes. The water boy was Miguel Covarrubias. now famed smartchart caricaturist...
...Abrams, Roxbury, M. H. Abrams, Long Branch, N. J., E. A. Ackerman, Spokane, Wash., P. L. Althouse, Reading, Pa., A. B. Baker, Jr., Braintree, D. Band, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., R. L. Behrens, Cleveland Hts., Ohio, R. Berner, Dorchester, W. M. Burdett, L. I. N. Y., W. N. Campbell, Jr., Roslindale, W. A. Chapman, Norwood, Ohio, D. D. Cody, Hartford, Conn., S. L. Cohen, Boston, P. J. Conley, Portland, Me., L. A. Cook, Sandusky, Ohio, E. N. Cooper, Cleveland, Ohio, R. C. Creel, Cambridge, F. J. Daly, South Boston, R. P. Davis, Jr., St. Paul, Minn., O. H. Davis, Mt. Vernon...
Life's physiological realities have long been discussed openly by advertisers of mouth wash, yeast, sanitary napkins, toilet paper and laxatives. But the inevitability of Death, homeliest reality of all, was not used flatly as a sales argument un til last week. Breaker of the convention was a milk company, Borden's advertising Walker-Gordon acidophilus milk...
Over the Hill (Fox) is old-fashioned cinema, dealing sadly with filial ingratitude and the poorhouse. Its story is simple, straight from the old hokum bucket: Ma Shelby (Mae Marsh) rears her children in a sacrificial way, tenderly requiring them to wash behind the ears and eat their porridge. When they mature, it is found that her ministrations have spoiled them, or else that they have inherited unhappy characteristics from their father, a bootlegger but a bad provider. One of the sons becomes a pompous hack-painter, married to a sleek and dressy strumpet. Another is an enfeebled hypocrite, whining...