Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monks and bones, And pavements fank'd with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two and seventy stenches, All well defined and separate stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine...
Mauldin jeeped for 36 hours to reach Patton's HQ, turned up scrubbed, shaved and saluting. Complained Patton: Mauldin's cartoons were playing hob with morale; not every soldier could wash and shave every day, but some who could didn't, just to look like Mauldin characters. Replied Mauldin in effect: the only Army morale his cartoons ever hurt is in high places. After 45 minutes with Old Blood & Guts, Young Gags & Grime emerged grinning, reported last week: "I came out with all my hide on. We parted good friends, but I don't think...
...Even though some of the appointments of Livadia Palace were luxurious, the plumbing was elementary. Explained Correspondent Cornell: "Supplementary ('Chic Sale'), facilities were installed outdoors; wash basins, pitchers and buckets were supplied indoors...
...Nisei were not friendless on the Pacific Coast-many openly welcomed them and hundreds deplored acts of violence. In Woodinville, Wash., Kametaro Funai, just out of a relocation camp, ran up against the manpower shortage. Promptly, some University of Washington students came out to help him on his farm...
...timely provider of both was sprawling Puget Sound Pulp & Timber Co., owner of the U.S.'s largest unbleached sulphite pulp mill at Bellingham, Wash., and first U.S. pulp mill in this war to manufacture alcohol from wood-pulp wastes...