Word: bathe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very flower of Britain's wartime heroes donned crimson and white robes of chivalry, last week, and assembled as the Most Noble Order of the Bath. The order is primarily militant. Civilians aspire to the Garter, but seldom to the Bath. Therefore last week it was a military pageant which moved with clanking swords through London, entered famed Westminster Abbey, traversed the long nave, and stamped with martial tread into the majestic, vaulted Chapel of Henry...
...Bearer, his face obscured by an early Saxon monkish cowl. The high purpose of His Majesty in convoking the Order, for the fourth time in the 18 years of his reign, came to august fruition as he proceeded to induct twelve new Knights of the Grand Cross of the Bath...
...this order unto you as ever it was to any of your progenitors or others." After so ennobling a ceremony observers regretted that they could not banish from memory the gross legend which recounts how King Henry IV (1367-1413) was moved to establish the Order of the Bath. A certain courageous soldier had knelt before the Sovereign to be knighted, but His Majesty, although not squeamish, recoiled at the kneeling man's terrific exudations. Tactful, King Henry IV, is said to have thereupon declared: "This brave fellow requires rest and refreshment after his prolonged heroism. Take him away...
...season (June), parlor, bedroom and bath can cost...
...herself. Arrested, sentenced to a workhouse, she escapes, finds employment with a traveling circus. And, as any botanist could have predicted, the rose of romance burgeons in the sawdust. In this case, the male principal is Gino (Charles Farrell), who paints minor masterpieces more often than he takes a bath. When Gino takes Angela back to Naples, the police recognize her and clap her into jail. When she is finally released, Gino exhibits a desire to strangle and a passion to wed. Noble, he weds. The warm, misty sky of Naples and the warm beauty of Miss Gaynor were...