Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became a prize fighter, started as a singer when the Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough waterfront cafes. Last week Valdes finished off an eight-week run at La Conga, where he made such a hit that one of the nightly duties of the headwaiter was to wipe off the lipstick feverish women had implanted on his photograph in the lobby...
...rigid loveliness of his family life, which adorned that evening like a page out of Lafcadio Hearn. It had not altered anything else, either. Late in the evening, after a good deal of pleasant enough talk, and apropos nothing, the surgeon "said quietly that he wished his country would wipe off the insult, declare war on mine. I was amazed. I asked, 'What insult?' He answered, 'The insult of the Exclusion...
...staggered out of his bedroom the other morning, rubbing his eyes to wipe away the queer apparitions of early awakening, it dawned upon Edwin R. (call me Mickey) Rooney, Jr. '46 that he was sharing his suite with some real strangers...
...Montgomery recently met a group of marines. Said he: "Aren't we pretty close to the front lines now, fellows?" Said a marine: "Front lines, hell. They're half a mile behind us. This is a patrol." Says Tiny Montgomery: "I ducked the bullets and watched them wipe out a machine-gun nest. I was glad to get back in one piece...
...make it impossible for the Government to sidetrack the demand of the railroad operating brotherhoods for further wage increases of $3 a day and of the nonoperating unions for 20? an hour. These increases, if granted, will add some $750,000,000 to railroad costs (or almost enough to wipe out 1942 profits) and put that amount of money directly into the hands of railroad workers, who will spend it with inflationary results...