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Word: laundryman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elizabeth, N. J., Sang Wah, laundryman, disappeared. For three weeks frantic customers tried vainly to obtain a total of $1,000 worth of laundry while annoyed policemen, unable to decipher the orange tickets, were unable to decide which laundry was whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...laundryman in Hanover is reported to have asked another the question: "Boys, they have to have pullee get on blig gleen team?". To this came the tart rejoinder: "No pullee; jess jawley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laundrymen at Hanover Puzzled-Green Reigns in Columbia Encounter-Game Today Resembles Pre-Revolutionary War | 10/27/1928 | See Source »

Famed as laundrymen, restaurateurs, Chinamen have not yet made their mark in aviation. But next month, Dr. Tien Lai Huang, "Chinese Lindbergh," hopes to take off for Hong Kong with a passenger, Anna May Wong, cinema star and daughter of a Los Angeles laundryman. And next month, Harry Rally King, Boston restaurateur, will tour the U. S. in a Pitcairn Mailwing to urge the cause of the Nationalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flyings | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...read with deep feeling your account of the persecution of a Chinese Laundryman in your Aug. 10 issue, Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 7, 1925 | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh late at night, in a line of smoke-stained houses on a miserable street, the darkness was broken by a single orange oblong, the doorway of a Chinese laundry. Two short, stocky men were perceptible, for a moment, in its glow. They shot the laundryman where he toiled over his ironing board, then stepped back into the darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tong | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

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