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