Word: bath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Christine, granddaughter of Gustaf, had her picture taken while vacationing at seaside Falsterbo, looked as if she had just stepped out of a bath...
...that business is the farm for which her racing stable is named, Maine Chance ("I just went to Maine one summer, and liked this farm so I took a chance and bought it"). Women who want to be as consistently "winning" as her horses pay $350 a week (adjoining bath) or $400 (private bath) for a thorough beautification at the "farm." "You should see the old hags that come to us, and we make of them something beautiful," says Miss Arden. "I don't think women should be sloppy or slump down into themselves and deteriorate. They should stretch...
...Russian commanding officers paid courtesy calls on their Allied opposites. Britain's Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, in a ceremony attended by 100 stately Grenadier Guardsmen went to the Brandenburger Tor, there awarded Marshal Zhukov the "Honory Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath...
...power for the unit. Along one arm of the U is ranged a food-freezing compartment, a refrigerator, an ironing machine, warming ovens, a cooking range (using pressure cooking)-all topped by a long work counter. Along the other arm: a dishwasher, automatic clothes washer and drier, lavatory, bath, toilet. A door and big windows are at the open end of the U and, according to Grebe, there is space for a workshop and storage inside. A set of three concentric chimneys over the stove, using hot escaping gases to warm incoming air, provides heat and ventilation...
...running." The product, Critic Rosenfeld points out, had a double quality. Its pictures of the period were brilliantly illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance throwing hash by the handful around Childs' at 6 a.m." But now the stories were increasingly marked by what Rosenfeld calls Fitzgerald's sense of "the quality of brutishness, of dull indirection...