Word: bath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper was able to settle readers' bets as to his guilt by publishing the note-a full confession. Scotland Yard has also had reason to respect the paper's passion for finicky detail. The full published report on the inquest of a bride drowned in her bath produced letters from readers in remote spots who knew of other bathtub drownings of young women linked to the same man, George Joseph Smith. The story helped to hang...
...Take a Bath. Though Philologist Ross admitted that "silence [is] perhaps the most favorite of all U usages today." the upper classes do have to open their mouths sometimes. They may repress a shudder at saying "Cheers" when drinking, but they will flatly refuse to say the non-U "God bless!" They do not "take a bath"; the U version is "have one's bath." U usage is a nought for the U.S. zero, and what? for pardon! The word civil has a special meaning for the upper class: it is "used to approve the behavior...
...theater companies will assemble from all over Europe. Salzburg's festival in honor of Mozart's 200th birthday will be one of the musical highlights of the year. Prices are moderate: from $3 to $5 for a good dinner, $10 for a first-class double room with bath...
...among the first to become proficient in the sport of roller skating (newly imported from America), had the Prince of Wales at her Sunday afternoon parties. Lord Kitchener, with his splendid mustachios, occasionally walked alongside when, in her 60s. Skittles made her parade through Hyde Park in a Bath chair. In her 70s, living in quiet respectability as Mrs. Bailey, she was deaf and partially blind, but "unconquered in talk" when old friends came to chat. In 1920 Skittles died; she was past 80 and "comfortably unrepentant...
...these things function as advertised. Yet the existence of the Wine Sippers adds little to the lives of beer drinkers; claw--feet do little to reconcile a bath-tub to one desiring a shower; the dining hall, however much better than the rest, still must cook on a budget, which contributes some of the evils of the Central Kitchen; the high-powered brains are of little general utility; the English collection's excellence is of little use to science concentrators, the washing machines are insignificant if one wants clothes ironed...