Word: bath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rabaul has the legendary South Seas beauty of a very blue harbor, of casuarina and golden-fruited paupau trees, of silk-swathed Chinese and darkly graceful natives who dye their woolly hair in vivid colors and call a shower bath "washwash on top." During World War I, when part of New Guinea was taken over from Ger many, the Australians told them about the change of sovereignty as follows: "Me been talk with you now, now you give three cheers belongina new feller master. No more um Kaiser. God save um King...
...Have heard of your waterless plight. Crimson extends invitation to all Mount Holyoke girls to come to Cambridge and share our showers. Harvard men find best way to make friends is sharing common bath facilities. Now when you feel like girls in soap ads and when bathless Yalemen won't come within ten feet of you, Harvard wants to make friends. Our showers are big enough...
...baptize the decree in the usual blood bath, Nazis sentenced and shot Viggo Hansteen, chief legal adviser to Norwegian trade unions, and Rolf Vickstroem, secretary of the Transport Union. Four others were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor...
...kissed us good night," reported Caroline, 12, and Eddie, 9. "They meant it kindly, but it is not very nice being kissed by people you don't know. Especially ladies who get on committees." Eddie was baffled by Toronto mores. Delighted with his first experience in a shower bath, he invited a little English refugee girl to share it with him. A refugee committee woman found them splashing happily together, howled in dismay: "You dirty little wretches! Little boys and girls don't do that sort of thing in this country...
Shanghai last week was no longer a city of easygoing riches and casual luxury. The Cathay, the smartest hotel on the Bund, into which Sir Victor Sassoon sank some of his Indian millions, was reduced to rationing its guests to two bath towels a week. Outside the Settlement, the Japanese guarded barbed-wire barricades, strong-armed any passer-by who they felt might be a Chinese "terrorist...