Word: bath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John's and the outports, the return of the sealers would be anxiously awaited, for the seal hunt and tragedy have long been synonymous. But when they come back, badly in need of a bath and reeking of blubber, the sealers will be able to make a few more dollars by selling flippers (up since the war from $1 a dozen to $1 apiece) to housewives for flipper pies. The flippers, which taste something like saltwater duck, are one of Newfoundland's national dishes...
First, a blonde show girl took a bath on stage. Then the announcer was hung by his heels from the rafters. At other times, paisanos kept things moving by eating through ten pounds of gelatin or gobbling up a pile of flour. Last week, two months after it began, Albricias y Sorpresas (Prizes & Surprises) had become the most popular of Mexico's 20 radio giveaways...
...able to organize the job of building homes, the primrose path will be only a bath of briars...
...Byrnes went to Spasso House, the U.S. embassy, where he spent the next morning reading a long document prepared in Washington to brief him on Big Three issues throughout the world. Bevin went to the British embassy, where Ambassador Clark Kerr turned over to him his living room-bedroom-bath apartment which he calls "Proust" because it has a paneled bath room like the one in which Author Marcel Proust's Albertine used to splash. Clark Kerr's bedroom has dark walnut paneling under a royal blue border with gold flow ers. The paneling is covered with gnomes...
General Marshall had risen early, breakfasted at 8, looked over the Sunday papers, gone out for a horseback ride. (He usually rode for 50 minutes.) He was in the shower when an urgent message arrived by telephone from General Miles' assistant. He finished his bath, dressed quickly and went straight to the War Department. The time...