Word: washout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What happens to the disciples of Jefferson and Jackson and Cleveland when that resolution is read out? Why, for us it is a washout. There is only one of two things we can do: We can either take on the mantle of hypocrisy or we can take a walk, and we will probably do the latter...
...French Reef. Scheduled to sail from New Orleans to New York at 11 a.m., the 8,000-ton Southern Pacific-Morgan Liner Dixie waited until 6 p. m. for 25 vacationists whose train had been held up by a Texas washout. More than a quarter of a day behind schedule, the Dixie dropped down through the Mississippi Delta, swung out into the Gulf of Mexico. Aboard her was a crew of 123 and 233 passengers, including three popularity contest winners from Pennsylvania, a prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, some honeymooners and an assortment of trippers and travelers taking advantage of the cheap...
...spent by the U. S. Government on aircraft production in the War years, says Author Loening, only 213 planes were delivered in Europe. "It is safe to say that the delivered A. E. F. American airplanes cost $1,000,000 each." The original Liberty engine he calls "a complete washout-designed overnight in a hotel room by a group of engineers who shut themselves in and lived on buttermilk-or pulled some such publicity stunt...
Real slang is invented by persons antisocial enough to resent commonplace terms but too ignorant to use synonyms. Publisher Funk's list necessarily omitted the coiners of such plain and useful words as "washout," "lousy," "okay," "beat it," "razz." Last week the fatherly New York Times which never permits slang to appear in its columns commented thus: "Good slang is 'sock on the jaw' and poor slang is 'economic Neanderthals' both from the collection of General Hugh Johnson. The first is as near to the soil as corned beef & cabbage; the second is recherch...
...they were careful to put on raincoats and rubbers. A quick look at the garden showed that it was all right. Closer inspection of the baseball diamond, where they played with worn-out canvas gloves and three damaged bats, was equally reassuring. Then the boys saw something else. A washout had completely carried away the ballast from under a section of track on the nearby Erie R. R. right-of-way! Aware that an 8:10 commuting train was soon due, the boys pulled off their raincoats, ran down the track waving them wildly. The engineer said that...