Word: bath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...petite Japanese Mademoiselle Butterfly, who he hopes will prove a piece-de-non- resistance. But a series of Japanese throw themselves in his way, not to save her virtue, but his dignity, and above all Japan's face. There is a hotel proprietress who uncomprehendingly scalds him in the bath ("Honorable tepid bath . . . could not have been more than 113°''). There is a geisha who saves the hotel's honor by sacrificing her own ("I whispered only these words: seventy-eight yen fifty . . . It was the price of Kodak No. 3A. anastigmatic lens, shutter for both time and instantaneous exposures...
...labeled the Mannerist-style painting of Gabrielle d'Estrées [Oct. 3] "Lady After Her Bath." Surely a more appropriate title would have been: "I dreamed I was in a jewelry store without my Maidenform...
...Skymotive Terminal. It includes a 400-ft.-long hangar (space rental and normal services: $575 a month for a DC-3, $55 for a Beechcraft Bonanza), a modern two-story terminal building with lounge, office space ($28.50 to $80 a month), conference room, flight-planning room, kitchen and bath facilities...
Last Man. In Morris Plains, N.J., vigorously campaigning for county coroner, Warren G. Bath pledged in a speech that, if elected, he would seek to have the job abolished...
...voting dragged on, a blistering sun turned the kampong into a steam bath, but nobody left. Even after the polls closed, the wilted voters waited to watch the counting by kerosene lamp. This was typical of polling places everywhere-intense, inarticulate interest, no disorders of any sort...