Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These girls are certainly the dizziest looking sirens one could imagine. In rags and tatters, holes in their coarse cotton stockings, torn, heeless shoes, their dresses ripped and burst, dirty-they can't get soap to wash their faces and hands-and no cosmetics to make up. About as much sex appeal as a busted down tractor, but somehow they grab off the sailor lads...
...health dogged the Mayors and their families. Trenton's Donnelly, sick at sea, went straight to Paris to rest. Atlanta's Key was taken to the American Hospital in Paris with stomach trouble. Mrs. Gray, wife of the 78-year-old Mayor of Pasco, Wash, had to be carried to her Rouen hotel room...
Ever since Justice Holmes was appointed to the bench in 1902 he has taken a secretary every year from his alma mater. Many of them have become eminent. Charles K. Poe, first secretary, who held the position for four years, is now a bank attorney in Seattle, Wash. George Leslie Harrison is Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Others are Harvey H. Bundy of Boston, recently appointed an Assistant Secretary of State; Irving S. Olds of Manhattan; Stanley Clarke, president of St. Louis Public Service Co.; Stanley Morrison, law professor at Stanford University; Chauncey Balknap of Manhattan; Vice...
...influence of parkways on land values and social values will be studied by the Harvard University School of City Planning and the Graduate School of Business Administration, in a joint research project conducted by Mr. John Nolen, city planning consultant, and Associate Professor Frank D. Wash burn of the Business School. Various outstanding examples, such as the parkway systems of Boston, Kansas City, Missouri, and Westchester County, New York, will be studied: reasons for success or failure will be determined and the findings stated so that they may be of value to other communities throughout the country...
Oldest mayor in the party came from the smallest town. He was Alvin Parker Gray, 78, of Pasco, Wash. (pop. 3,500). He said he was going to "team-up" with the youngest mayor, R. B. Marvin of Syracuse, N. Y., who is 33. Bigger and louder than even St. Louis' Victor J. ("Oh, Boy") Miller was Mayor George L. Baker of Portland, Ore. Large, breezy, beetle-browed Mayor Baker lost no time in making himself the personage of the party. He wore a 10-gallon hat, was elected chairman of the delegation, gave out the big interview during...