Word: wiper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sales tax tokens, proceeded to roll the ivories and completely demoralize traffic. Elmers capered about in diapers, smocks, underwear and funny faces blowing bugles, shooting blank pistols, tooting whistles, ringing bells, hooting sirens, beating tin cans. Prime trick was to stop a motorist, "inspect" his brakes, lights, horn, windshield wiper, then lift his hood and close the petcock on his gas line so that when released he would proceed only a few yards before the car stopped for good. Saloons ran all night long, bartenders were far too busy to prepare anything more complicated than rye-&-ginger ale. Most widespread...
...from the crow's nest, arose unharmed. A 40-ft. whale became so firmly impaled on the Pennsylvania's bow that the captain had to put his ship astern to dislodge it. The liner also rushed to the aid of a freighter, took off a wiper who had a chicken's wishbone lodged in his throat...
Sirs: In your interesting account of the origin of the song "Casey Jones" . . . you credit "Wallace Saunders, a Negro engine wiper" with originating a "homemade song" about Jones...
...Henry Chrysler used to drive a wood-burning locomotive across the plains of Kansas. Fifty-eight years ago a son was born to him in the town of Wamego, Kans. Walter Chrysler from boyhood was a wizard with machinery. At 1 7 he quit school to become an engine wiper at 5 ?an hour. He took a course in mechanical engineering from International Correspondence Schools. At 33 he had already driven through all the branches of railroad mechanics to the position of superintendent of motive power and machinery for the Chicago & Great Western. From that job he went to American...
...blackness is all done by action of the acid. A goose feather is the best possible tool for brushing away microscopic gas bubbles while the plate is in the bath. Much of the effect of Whistler's etchings is due to the fact that he was a superb wiper, had an unerring touch in wiping just the right amount of excess ink from his plates before each printing...