Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earnest evening, Jennie Tourel finally let the lowbrows in the audience have Songs My Mother Taught Me, My Hero (from The Chocolate Soldier), and a piece of heavy whimsy by Leonard Bernstein, called I Hate Music. Two nights later she sang in the little college town of Pullman, Wash., and half the town turned out to hear...
...Homes Corp. two of the nation's big wartime housing developments: Fairlington, across the Potomac in Virginia, with 3,439 apartment units; McLean Gardens, on the site of the old Evalyn Walsh (Hope Diamond) McLean estate, with 1,912 units. DHC tossed a 180-apartment development in Bremerton, Wash, into the bargain. Corrigan's end of the deal: $4 million cash, the balance on a 28-year mortgage...
...Complained an indignant letter-writer in Quito's El Comercio: "In the morning the cook must take a streetcar to the hospital to see if she can get some water. She usually returns late and without any, so we have lunch at 4 p.m. without a drop to wash our hands. . . . Whenever I need a shave, I buy a bottle of beer...
...Crockett Johnson abandoned Barnaby last year, and Roy Crane gave up Wash Tubbs. Major Hoople, star boarder of Our Boarding House, did better after his creator Gene Ahern was replaced by a group of N.E.A. artists and writers...
...sings her blues with an exuberant bounce which she calls "Kansas City style with a terrific rhythm." On her piano stands a white porcelain "kitty," where fans stuff as much as $60 a night (in addition to her $150 weekly salary). Beside her is a pitcher of water, to wash down the jiggers of bourbon which customers buy her. As a kind of jolly mother confessor to the depressed spirits in the audience, Julia usually ends up a group of songs with an invitation: "Let's sit down and drink it over...