Word: bath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finger bowl and doily and John puts a glass saucer and a little bowl on the plate. Barnett brings me some chocolate custard. John brings me a demi-tasse (at home a little cup of coffee-about two good gulps) and my dinner is over. I take a hand bath in the finger bowl and go back to work. What a life...
...pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans." He liked to believe that his life was "centric," though it struck most people as eccentric beyond belief. He would take a bath, step out, and then step in again, shouting angrily: "Dammit, I've been in here already!" He would drop a garter on the floor, plunge after it, find a book there, and lie on the floor, reading...
...picked up Donald Smith and Everett Myers, and we went to the basketball game at Pulaski High School. Pulaski won, I think it was 55 to 46. After I got home from the basketball game, it was about 1 o'clock in the morning. I took a bath, shaved, put on a new suit and packed, my grip. I looked for money. I gathered up about $127. I wrote a note to my father . . . It said: 'Sorry things have happened this way. Maybe we will meet again . . . Your Twisted Son.' Then I drove toward Geneva, Illinois...
...mayor of Isnello, Sicily announced that his village (pop. 4,107) would soon have a new public shower bath, thanks to New York City's Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri, who sent over $2,400 for the installation after visiting his birthplace last fall...
...front porch that bright October morning, Lilian Sayre wondered for the hundredth time who little Petie's daddy might be. Big, black Clara, Petie's unmarried mother and the Sayres' woman of all work, was raking leaves; her brown-skinned youngster was cleaning the bird bath. Then the truth hit Lilian like a cosmic shock: Petie's father was Lilian's own husband, Carl. Clara did not even try to deny it. Neither, later, did Carl Sayre. But though Lilian kicked Clara out that very day and burned down the backyard shack she slept...