Word: bath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These, he explained, reflect heat waves upward like a Turkish bath. Living things, however, such as trees, grass, and well-filled strapless bathing suits absorb the sun's rays, and proximity to them makes for a cooling effect...
...succeeding days there was luncheon with President Vincent Auriol at the Château de Rambouillet, dinner with Foreign Minister Bidault, a visit to Versailles. One hot afternoon (95°), Evita slipped into Notre-Dame, listened to a brief sermon, prayed, then drove back to the Ritz for a bath. Always there were rich food and champagne and the tasteless corn-bread that is found cn most French tables. It was a polite way of emphasizing French need for Argentine wheat...
...barnlike Chicago Stadium felt and smelled like a crowded Turkish bath. A thermometer near the ringside, under the furious glow of the ring lights, read 88°. A crowd that paid $422,918 to get in (double the take of any previous indoor fight) was packed shoulder to shoulder. The organ pumped out the National Anthem, Zale stood at attention like everybody else, but Rocky Graziano, the reform-school graduate from Manhattan's Lower East Side, went right on dancing and sparring in his corner...
After seven weeks of howling success on the air, radio's newest star is disgusted. He meets the public so often now that he has to take a bath every two weeks-twice as often as he used to. His reward is a mere 25 biscuits a show-mouse-bait to a full-grown, well-to-do male collie like "Lassie" (real name...
Author Costain lays on the local color thick-duels, tortures, trials, Valerie rising naked from her bath, and plenty of antique dressmaking chatter. As lavish with his color, Author Shellabarger is much the subtler hand with characters and story-though in this field "subtle" is strictly a comparative term. Prince of Foxes begins in Venice, with Andrea Orsini bowing low before the lovely Camilla degli Baglioni. Foxy Andrea can tell that Camilla is una illustrissima, but how is Camilla to know that Andrea, for all his fine clothes, is the son of a blacksmith? Prince of Foxes is laid...