Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Majesty's ambassador, Sir Roger Makins, forced, in the name of duty, to eat lavender-pink potato salad and dance the Lambeth Walk with strange ladies. Let Sir Roger reflect that his predecessors of 20 years ago had it even rougher: no champagne or Scotch to wash the stuff down with ... At least, in this age of lavender-pink potatoes and policies, Sir Roger does not have to face the grim protocol of Prohibition, which moved the compassion of Hilaire Belloc...
...fine day some 40 years ago, pupils of the Webster School in Spokane, Wash, put on a musical show. The significance of the event was not appreciated at the time, and the part of the show in which a number of children dressed like blocks came out onstage to jump up & down got only moderate applause. Nobody particularly cared that one of those blocks was named Harry Lillis Crosby...
Bellingham, Wash...
...Levi Strauss began making for gold miners and cowhands back in 1850 (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950). High school girls quickly copied the craze. Spare-time yachtsmen found that salt water gave the deep blue levis a faded look, which became so fashionable that youngsters dumped bleach into the family wash to fade their...
Salmon-Skin Leather. Shoes, handbags, wallets and belts made of salmon skins will go on sale in Manhattan shoe stores this fall. Tanned by a process developed by Tidewater Laboratories, of Bellingham, Wash., salmon-skin leather looks much like cobra skin, is seven times as strong as good calfskin, and can be bleached and dyed any color...