Word: bath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Count Matarazzo, Baby took over his family's metals plant a few years ago and made it into the largest nonferrous rolling mill in South America. For his redheaded fiancee, Nelita Alves de Lima, Baby is building a million-dollar house in suburban Santo Amaro with two Turkish baths, a shooting gallery, a bowling alley and an outdoor swimming pool. It will also have a 130-ft. indoor swimming pool with a cascade of water 30 ft. wide and 21 ft. high at one end. By swimming through his waterfall, Baby will find himself in a grotto equipped with...
...engagement at a Miami nightclub, Egyptian Cooch Dancer Samia Gamal, bride of Texas Playboy (Shepherd) Abdullah King, sniffed the U.S. air, announced that American women "use too much soap. I take a bath twice every week, and the other days I sponge myself with olive oil. It would be better if American girls shined a little...
Increasingly deaf and forever ailing, the earl took to shuttling stoically between Bath and London, in one city drinking the waters, in the other, the bitter tea of a lonely old age. His reason had withered his faith in God and realism had whittled his faith in man, but nothing ever weakened his faith in manners. On his deathbed, his valet announced that a friend, Solomon Dayrolles, had come to see him. "Give Dayrolles a chair," croaked Chesterfield, and died...
...outdo Nye Bevan as a Tory-baiter, Manny kept the House of Commons in session for 20 hours, in the first all night sitting of the new Parliament. Those who stayed awake heard a great deal of cross and petty talk. When Shinwell announced that he needed a bath and a shave, a weary Tory brigadier asked him to get his throat cut, too. For talking back to the chair, Left-Winger Sydney Silverman, a tricky little hairsplitting parliamentarian, was suspended (for five days) by a vote...
...find no pulse, his stethoscope revealed no heartbeat. A mirror held before her mouth and nostrils showed no breathing. The eyes seemed lifeless, and Mrs. Butler's body was cold. Though the doctor estimated that she had been dead for hours, rigor mortis had not set in. The bath water, it was thought, might explain that...