"Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron" is a traditional English folk song written in the 19th century about a woman carrying out one part of her linen chores each day of the week.
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Bogarde, Dirk. A Postillion Struck by Lightning. Triad/Panther Books, Frogmore, 1978, p268. During the Second World War, she became a regular performer at the Players' Theatre, where her repertoire included "Casey Jones", "Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow- wow", "Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron", "The Lady Wasn't Going that Way" and "You May Pet Me as Much as You Please".
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The iron is the small appliance used to remove wrinkles from fabric. It is also known as a clothes iron, steam iron, flat iron, smoothing iron or iron box. On 15 February 1858 W. Vandenburg and J. Harvey patented an ironing table that facilitated pressing sleeves and pant legs. A truly portable folding ironing board was first patented in Canada in 1875 by John B. Porter.
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On the opening night of the exhibition, which had been arranged by Marvin, TV presenter Joan Bakewell visited and invited Lunn to appear on Late Night Line-Up that night. This was Lunn's first television appearance. Lunn was later invited to appear on the children's TV show Magpie on which he spoke on a variety of subjects including bottles and the history of the domestic smoothing iron. Meanwhile Dowling approached Lunn with a request to make a 'door-bell machine'.
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An electric steam iron Charcoal iron (Hungary) A clothes iron (also flatiron, smoothing iron, or simply iron) is a small appliance that, when heated, is used to press clothes to remove creases. Domestic irons generally range in operating temperature from between to . It is named for the metal (iron) of which the device was historically made, and the use of it is generally called ironing. Ironing works by loosening the ties between the long chains of molecules that exist in polymer fiber materials.
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On November 3, 1878, Richards got up early in the morning, along with another man named Brown, who had been staying at the house. Brown left to feed the horses and complete other chores around the farm. Richards found a spade and dug a hole, then sneaked back into the house and murdered Mary, Daisy, Mabel and Jesse with an ax. According to one report, Mary and one of the children were murdered with a smoothing iron, while the other two were physically assaulted.
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In Poland the Fiat 125p is called "Kredens" ("Cupboard"), "Kant" ("Edge") or "Bandyta"/"Bandzior" ("bandit"/"cut-throat") by the younger members of society. The most common nickname is "Duży Fiat" (the big Fiat), as opposed to the Fiat 126p which is called "Maluch"/"Mały Fiat" ("Small one"/"Small Fiat"). In Hungary, people usually call it "Nagypolski" or "Nagypolák" ("Big Polski"), while the 126 is dubbed "Kispolski" or "Kispolák" ("Small Polski"). In the former Yugoslavia, the 125p was called "Pezejac", while the 126p was nicknamed "Peglica", which means "Little Iron", as in a smoothing iron, an iron used to press clothing.
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