Word: washingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from goat's tallow and beech ashes. Though the Greeks and Romans praised cleanliness, neither used soap. As late as 1853, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gladstone condemned soap as "most injurious both to the comfort and health of the people." Fortunately, some prejudices come out in the wash...
...name, telephone number and address of that terrific gal I met at your party." In May, he stopped in Portland again-to see Cathy and his dentist, "in that order of importance"-and later invited her to join a party at Prairie Lodge, his remote cabin in Gooseprairie, Wash., in the heart of the Cascade Mountains. Invited to a banquet in Los Angeles earlier this month, Douglas once again invited Cathy along, just in time for her to be stranded by the airline strike. Said Cathy: "I stayed over three days and I got married...
...afternoon, the streets are filled with men carrying sudsy plastic pails and chamois. Floor mats and cushions-many of them hand-embroidered by the car owner's routine wife-are assiduously cleaned, often by tiny, transistorized vacuum cleaners. A recent survey showed that 60% of all German males wash their own cars, 57% every week...
While Labor's left was pecking away at Harold Wilson for supporting the U.S. in Viet Nam, there came a diversionary coo from his own kitchen. Wife Mary Wilson, best known as the mistress of No. 10 Downing, who still likes to do Harold's cooking and wash his socks, turned out to be a ruble-earning poetess. From Moscow last week came a check for $95 in royalties paid by Izvestia, which printed a ban-the-bomb ballad Mary had written some years ago. The poem, to be sung to the tune of After the Ball...
Divorced. William O. Douglas, 67, Supreme Court Justice for 25 years; by Joan Martin Douglas, 26, his third wife; on uncontested grounds of cruel treatment and personal indignities; after less than three years of marriage (she won the right to resume her maiden name); in Yakima, Wash...