Word: washtub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contrary to current impression, Sid doesn't spend his days leaning over a washtub and I don't do the ironing," said Partner Shields, kidded by fellow men-about-town. Nevertheless, Socialites Wood and Shields-one the owner of a California gold mine and the other a Broadway insurance broker-have not yet missed a day at the laundry. Last week Partner Wood entrained for California on his first washtub business trip. At Santa Monica he will open a branch laundry, to be managed by Tennist Frankie Parker...
...when the audience is larger. This is rank discrimination against the American housewife, and promises to become a breeder of privilege. Imagine the pleasure that would come into the lives of our wives and mothers if during mornings spent bent over a hot stove or steaming washtub they could turn a switch and hear a lecture from Mallinckrodt, perhaps by Professor Kohler, giving them some new pointers on biscuit...
John Llewellyn Lewis: To me, Landon is just as empty, just as inane, just as innocuous as a watermelon that has been boiled in a washtub...
...Tillie's niece (Jacqueline Wells), her husband and an imperturbable infant (Baby LeRoy). It becomes necessary, in order to thwart a rival ferryboat operator, for Fields, Skipworth, Wells and gurgling LeRoy to win a race in the Keystone in the course of which LeRoy falls overboard in a washtub and Fields stokes the boilers with boxes of roman candles. Part parody of Tugboat Annie, part pure farce, Tillie and Gus is one of the pleasanter chapters in the long and happy career of W. C. Fields's famed unlighted cigar. Baby LeRoy, now 19 months old, has taken...
...Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks, tour official who had proudly led the flyers into his native state, they took six bottles of liquor and $30 in fines. From the cushion in George Haldeman's Bellanca Pacemaker they extracted a half-case of beer. In short order the agents collected a washtub full of liquor, while late arrivals, grasping the situation at sight, hurled bottles right & left before their planes could be searched. Among 18 flyers competing for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy, the Ford tri-motor piloted by Lieut. Harry Russell led by 1,763 points. Second was the Waco...