Her first performance was "playing a 'whitewasher'" in the story of Tom Sawyer.

According to Philadelphia city directories of the period, he worked as a laborer, cook, whitewasher and coachman.

At various times in his life, he was a sailor, ship's cook and steward, whitewasher, and day laborer.

So far I've been intermittently a rotten ploughman, a fair fence-mender and a skillful whitewasher.

Instead, he handpicked a whitewasher who dutifully filibustered past the election, ultimately condemning Congress for the arms buildup of Saddam Hussein.

No indeedy, Mistah Swift," and the whitewasher, who had descended from his wagon, edged away, as if the airship might suddenly put out a pair of hands and grab him.

He oversees the criminal division, and - with Florida's John (Hot Suit) Hogan, whitewasher of Iraqgate - masterminded last month's publicity blitz using Janet Reno as ultra-accessible media queen.

Sampson was the colored servant's last name, and he declared he had chosen the one "Eradicate" because in his younger days he was a great cleaner and whitewasher, "eradicating" the dirt, so to speak.

Zachariah Tyler was a black man, a whitewasher by trade, who served as a minister at the St. James AME Zion Church in the upstate village of Ithaca, New York.

Both the 1870 and 1880 census show a building at 3 Broadway Alley - the exact location of which cannot be identified - as exclusively black, mostly American-born, with typical occupations of upholsterer, waiter, coachman and whitewasher.

He was aided, however, by his chum, Ned Newton, who worked in the Shopton Bank, and also by Mr. Damon and Eradicate Sampson, an aged colored whitewasher, who formed quite an attachment for Tom.

Her protestation of no-conflict is a charade: the former Criminal Division chief who stands to be investigated in the Banca Lavoro damage control is Ed Dennis, the whitewasher chosen by Reno's deputy to find "no blame" in her Waco blunder.