Word: washes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author James Stevens, onetime hobo teamster, of Tacoma, Wash., is famed as the chronicler of superhuman Paul Bunyan, the mythical hero of North American lumber camps. Author Stevens is an authority on other mythical creatures of North America including lava bears, sand gougers, lightning birds, waumpus cats, treehoppers and minktums (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926, BOOKS). Last week, announcement was made of another Stevens extravaganza, an allegorical U. S. fable entitled "Staggerbear and Guzzlenot" which Plain Talk, the monthly magazine publishing it, condensed for publicity purposes as follows...
This dinner calls for an elaborate ritual. First one of the guests must "call the pudding down" and another guest must "lead the pudding in." After that it is carved and eaten with rare old liquers to "wash it down...
...swarm of airplanes rose boisterously over Roosevelt Field, L. L, and buzzed westward in quest of $5,000. They were small, light Class B land planes of the commercial type, flying for a money prize in a transcontinental race to Spokane, Wash. Twenty-five started; that night pilots of twelve went to bed in Chicago; the first official stopping place. Thick, drizzly weather and brutally bumpy air over the Alleghenies stirred pilots to call it the most dangerous hop they had ever made. Over half of the planes came down short of the stopping point owing to weather, engine...
Near Seattle, Wash., one Mrs. M. E. Stein was cooking fish. Hearing a commotion outside, she left her kitchen, left the fish frying over the fire and a great jug of spicy soup standing on the floor. When she returned to the kitchen, she first went to "turn" the fish; then she looked at her soup tureen. She stared at her soup tureen; over the edge of it was hanging a grey, silky brush. When Mrs. Stein pulled this brush, she found that it was attached to an animal. From her soup she extracted the pet weasel...