Word: bath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons who rate among life's necessities the hot, soaking bath complete with whisk, sponge and loofah got a jolt last week. It came from testy, aging (78) Viscount Maugham, elder brother of Novelist W. Somerset Maugham. Said the Viscount, during a House of Lords debate on water shortage: "As pleasant as it is to have a daily bath, it is not really necessary to health. Many lads who came back from Africa had not had a bath in three months and they will tell you they were none the worse. A bath very largely is a luxury...
...Fifteen hundred American M.P.s were on duty to handle traffic, crime, tipsy soldiers. Two streams of human traffic-Americans, English, Scots, Canadians, French, Poles, Italians, and striped-bath-robed Goumiers-flowed up & down the sidewalks into Via Roma...
...ultraviolet radiation system for theaters, offering the double advantage of making fluorescent-coated aisles and seats visible and giving the audience an ultraviolet bath...
General Douglas MacArthur is also a Knight of the Bath (TIME, March 27), but has not yet been decorated by Soviet Russia, presumably because he is not deemed to be fighting in the same...
...Order of the Bath was established by Henry IV at his coronation in 1399, was later forgotten, was revived by George I in 1725. It is doubtful whether the ceremony had any connection with the actual ablutions of the monarch...