Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lynden, Wash...
...bluntly or subtly to all kinds of men, and he could ride a horse as smartly as he could snub an upstart. But he was no stick; he dreamed of writing film scripts and was "always interested in the possibility of raising King John's treasure from the Wash...
Historians will be thankful that neither Hollywood nor the Wash engulfed Secretary Ponsonby. His notes on life in the royal household from 1894 to 1935 are more tangible than King John's treasure, and quite as well written as most film scripts. They succeed in disclosing a great deal while simultaneously concealing a lot more-a combined operation that came easily to the man who noted sagely that "it is easy to be discreet when one knows everything...
Chiaroscuro does not pretend to tell all. It is, as John amiably explains, but a "rough cross section of a part of my career . . . No doubt everything comes out in the wash eventually, but I see no reason to anticipate this process and spoil other people...
When he was 26, Jack Westland was runner-up at Chicago in the National Amateur Golf tournament. He lost to Francis Ouimet, 38, one of the oldest men ever to win the title. After that, Jack Westland settled down in Everett, Wash. as a commendable tournament golfer and successful insurance salesman...