Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comes out in the wash. One can learn a great deal about people by a casual look at the weekly laundry. If the man of the house is a laborer or railroad man, there's usually a pair or two of denim overalls and a matching jumper. If there are children in the family there is evidence of them on the clothesline. I understand that in New England old-fashioned longies appear on the lines later in the season. But it is feminine things hanging in the back yards which reveal sadly,--no dispassionately,--what has happened to our once...
...LaGuardia, speechmaking in Oklahoma City, called the President the "Roy Riegels* of American politics." Pint-sized Billy Rose, showman turned columnist, suggested W. C. Fields as presidential timber: "If we're going to have a comedian in the White House, let's have a good one." In Wash ington's Smithsonian Institution, a mysterious scratch disfigured the face of the Chief Executive's portrait...
...promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst of the lot (see cut), awarded her creator, Basil Wolverton, a Vancouver, Wash, comic-book artist, a $500 prize...
Thomas E. Dewey ran into an embarrassing shortage problem last week. A year ago, the sympathetic Tacoma (Wash.) Athletic Commission found the Governor a hard-to-get toilet seat for the Executive Mansion, sent it to him posthaste. But now the commissioners, building new quarters, were confronted with an identical shortage. Red-faced but resolute, they sent for their toilet seat...
...butchers' counters early were in luck if they found bologna or frankfurters. Thousands of housewives could find no butcher shop open in their neighborhoods. The National Association of Retail Meat Dealers estimated that at least 36,000 butchers had closed; many had dismissed their employes indefinitely. In Olympia, Wash., most butchers opened only two days a week - and hoped that a little something to sell would come along. In all Boston there was not enough beef to stock one good-sized meat store. In Maine there was a sharp increase in illegal deer hunting...