Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andre Boissard) the Premier of France was equipped to put President Hoover's experts and key men on their mettle. Half a ton of French documents, code books, official stationery and what not the Premier also brought. But plain Pierre Laval brought no valet, wore his white wash tie, came "dressed like a salesman," as Paris papers said...
...evening papers considered it far less important than that day's World Series game. Even the "hardluck flyers," Socialite Hugh Herndon Jr. and oldtime Barnstormer Clyde Pangborn, flyers of two oceans, seemed to sense an anticlimax when they skidded their wheelless Bellanca monoplane into the airport at Wenatchee, Wash., 41 hr. after taking off from Samishiro Beach, 280 mi. north of Tokyo. Their troubles on the flight had been less than their troubles with the Japanese authorities in Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 28, et ante). Yet their flight, 4,500 mi., was one of the greatest long distance flights accomplished...
Near Wenatchee, Wash., Walter Griffith's truck, loaded with watermelons, skidded from the road, burst into flames. Quick-witted Walter Griffith grabbed his watermelons, threw them against the truck with might & main. The 23rd watermelon put out the fire...
...says little, goes about patiently asking questions and scrupulously keeping his counsel, politicos are likely to become nervous and uneasy. Wherever Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley flew during the past three weeks in his effort to bring back to President Hoover the insular attitude toward independence, the wash of his plane's propeller, the dust kicked up by his horse or motor magnified itself into daily monsoons at Manila. The native House of Representatives began devoting a daily half-hour period to bombarding Secretary Hurley. Speaker Manuel Roxas, leader of the independence bloc, nearly beside himself with impatience...
...bunch of reading cards you'll get a good grade. Anyhow, you can't just ignore Babbitt: either you've got to throw the baby out with the bathtub, or get away with him and be cleansed of all Romanticism, or, if you're really wise, you'll wash away his prejudices and persiflage and get to the main body underneath...