Word: bathe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swept them together, clutched them up, pushed them into the fireplace. The flames spouted and little black cinders of money blew up the chimney throat. When Ion Gerghuta came back and saw what his son had done he killed him, swiftly. In another room Ion's wife was bathing her year-old baby. She heard her son scream and ran to him. When she returned, the baby had drowned in its bath water. Ion Gerghuta's wife ran from the house to the farm pond, plunged in, drowned herself. Ion Gerghuta, when he saw that she was dead, found...
...objections to newsphotographers. One camera caught him munching a bun. Banker Morgan, eschewing academic robes or class reunion costume, wore a black cutaway, grey trousers, panama hat. He left early to board his huge black yacht, the Corsair, to go and inspect his new 343-foot yacht, abuilding at Bath, Maine...
...Second State Opera House, rising for the world premiere of Neues vom Tage (The Day's News), latest opus of ultra-modern Composer Paul Hindemith, revealed Primadonna Crete Stueckgold seated in a tub with real-looking soapsuds up to her chin, warbling about the delights of a hot bath...
...matter is a farcical treatment of divorce. The soprano's opening song becomes a duet when a man, employed by her husband to provide divorce grounds, enters the room. The duet becomes a trio when another feminine guest of the hotel comes in to demand the use of the bath. Finally the noise grows so loud that all the employes stream in. The finale is exciting, uproarious...
...Labor, and Britain's first woman Cabinet minister, parliamentary under secretary for labor in the 1924 Labor government. So strenuous were "Saint Maggie's" hours when she worked in a draper's shop as a young girl that only once a week could she take a bath, running three-quarters of a mile to a public bath, where she had to bathe and dress in 15 minutes...