Word: whitewash
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Retainer. In Sacramento, Calif., John O'Day, 76, arrested 73 times since he first hit a bartender with a bucket of whitewash in 1915, persuaded the county supervisors to award him a $50-a-month pension, on the ground that it would be cheaper than supporting him in jail...
Yesterday the Varsity hopped down Falmouth to try for a repeat performance on the 4 to 0 whitewash that began summer season. Saturday it will have second go with Holey Cross, this time at Worcester, trying to recapture scalp from the Crusader collection...
...consists of selections from Fitzgerald's own essays, stories, notebooks and letters, including the famed scarifying confession (published in Esquire in 1936) in which Fitzgerald explained his decline from high-ranking novelist to Hollywood hack. The result is an extraordinary character-study, wholly free from reticence or whitewash. Readers who hope to recapture the lilt and flame of flapper days will find themselves staring at the clogged ash trays and unwashed glasses of the morning after...
Mississippi's turkey-gobbler John E. Rankin, chairman of the House Veterans Committee, which has been "investigating" the hospitals, last week gave them a clean coat of whitewash, just as newsmen had predicted he would: "Our veterans are receiving fine treatment and handling...
...bare and dirty room, with a couple of windows, whereof a tenth part might be of glass, the remainder being stopped up with old copybooks and paper. . . . The walls were so stained and discoloured that it was impossible to tell whether they had ever been touched with paint or whitewash...