'We was running sheets and the ironer just blew up - or it seemed that way.

'Then you know the machine they call the speed ironer?'

'And you think all those things got into the Blue Ribbon ironer?

One man works as an asbestos remover, another an ironer of clothes, the third a dishwasher.

"She feeds the clothes through this ironer, which can do what was an hour's ironing before the war in three minutes.

I'm investigating an ironer with a bad case of demon possession and would like to know if you're a virgin."

I noticed a little container of it sitting under the ironer's sheet platform on the day the Frawley woman died.

She says I'm the world's best ironer.

She was a washer and ironer, and knew enough by hard experience to keep money when she got it.

Occasionally an ironer lost the stride for an instant, gasped or sighed, then caught it up again with weary determination.

The German electronics giant Siemens has come up with an automatic shirt ironer for the home.

'It was like the ironer was breathing.

She was a world-class last-minute ironer and she didn't need to primp, so she got by.

Hunton closed his eyes and in the darkness he could see the Hadley-Watson speed ironer again, as it had been that afternoon.

She told me she was a washer and ironer and gained a good living, but that many free coloured women were not respectable.

If Gartley and Stanner were cutting corners on the speed ironer's maintenance, they'll go to jail.

'The State Board of Safety has shut the ironer down pending a full investigation,' Hunton said.

Certainly no one dropped a hand into the ironer before Mrs Frawley's death, and belladonna is definitely not indigenous to the area.'

Momma worked on the speed ironer and folder down at the Blue Ribbon Laundry in Chamberlain Center.

'The speed ironer at the Blue Ribbon Laundry, I guess you didn't catch the squeal this time.'

The machine he later came to know intimately: the HadleyWatson Model-6 Speed Ironer and Folder.

Granted, the Hadley Watson Model 6 Steamer Ironer and Folder is an impressive hunk of metal.

In one of King's short stories, The Mangler, a detective is called in to investigate a death caused by a demon-possessed ironer in similar industrial laundromat.

My colleagues and I are of the opinion that the only way the speed ironer could have killed Mrs Frawley was for her to have fallen into it from above.

During that period, the Hungerford School used money donated by the committee to furnish a game room, purchase dining hall equipment, farm equipment, and a laundry ironer, among other things.