Word: bath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill cabled Captain Agnew congratulations. King George VI named him a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for his deed, unprecedented in World War II: finding and destroying an entire convoy...
...bath and telephone services were just about normal last week. Pedestrians no longer gawked at rescue squads digging out bodies, instead watched the installation of auxiliary water tanks in bomb craters. Rationing of food (somewhat lessened) and clothing (still 66 coupons per person) continued, but there was food aplenty for those who could pay (50% more than last year...
Oxonian Herbert's words touched off a row like a summer thunderstorm. One hundred seventy-four Members of Parliament signed a petition supporting the Group. Evangelist Buchman himself was not available for comment (he was last seen in Bath, Me. attending a Group musical show called You Can Defend America), but from his press-relations department came a stream of releases giving testimonials from everyone from Franklin Roosevelt to "the Lord Mayor of Bristol and 52 aldermen and councilors...
...good old Saturday night tub bath" has been the complaining cry of J. Leo Rost, a Dunster House Senior in his three years in Cambridge. And now, he at last has his wish, for he has provided himself with a portable, collapsible, rubber tub, in which he is went to "idle among the soap suds with a good book...
Branding showers as "unclean, unsanitary, and unhealthful," Rost claims that he had tried the swimming pool, and even a dip in the cool crystal-clear waters of the Charles as a substitute for an old-fashioned bath, but was satisfied with neither. "Just bring on those Mount Holyoke girls," Rost boasted...