Word: wringer
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...paper by stewing up cigarette paper with bits of colored thread, stirring the mess with an egg beater, sizing it (to keep the product from crumbling when it dried) and finally rolling it out by hand. He printed his money with a press made from an old clothes wringer...
...stayed at the Mayflower. He liked many things about it, including the Presidential Dining Room where columnists, politicos and union chiefs served up the latest gossip as piping hot as the famed terrapin soup. Most of all he liked the way the Mayflower had gone through the financial wringer and come out making money. He bought...
...Doctor and the Girl (MGM) is a painless medical movie glorifying the general practitioner. Young Dr. Glenn Ford, a ruthlessly ambitious intern, is put through a soap-opera wringer until he reforms and becomes a bighearted country doctor with an office under Manhattan's Third Avenue...
...music store. At night he carries on an anonymous lonely-hearts correspondence with an unknown lady. Judy, a salesgirl in the same shop, is also a lonely-heart. Before they discover that they are writing to each other, a foreseeable number of comic situations have been run through the wringer...
...imagination, Russian newspaper readers could already see the nefarious U.S. capitalists selling apples on drafty street corners. Among Russia's bigwigs only 70-year-old Eugene Varga, once considered the Soviet Union's foremost economist, did not join the chorus that was sending the U.S. to the wringer...