Word: bathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them, a challenge from Mississippi Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger Jr. for him to state his views on integration and segregation. While he kept an overflow reception crowd waiting in the Roof Room of the Heidelberg Hotel, Jack Kennedy hid out in his room, lolling in a warm bath while he thought through a revised version of his speech...
...finds out they don't or are indifferent-well, then he can be bloody rude." He once interrupted a long-winded scientist in the midst of a long lecture, to remark: "That's all very well, but you still haven't found out what makes my bath water gurgle." On another occasion, he snapped at an admiral whose demeanor indicated he had drunk his lunch: "Well, Admiral, what do you think-that is, if you are still capable of thinking...
...impresarios established their first office in a bathroom. A friend had agreed to let them use his tony Manhattan address provided that they kept out of the way, so they installed the phone in a spare bath. In this austere retreat the opera company took shape. Backers were found, some of whom were in the Social Register, and most of them owned awnings. The company's first production was Monteverdi's 300-year-old Coronation of Poppea, performed in a Fifth Avenue drawing room for an audience...
...plan (see diagram below) treats three floors as a unit. Student suites--typically four individual study-bedrooms and a common living room and bath--are so arranged that all living rooms are on the middle floor, with a solid floor of bedrooms above and below. From each living room, inside stairs lead up or down to the bedrooms of that suite. Only the middle floor--where the living rooms are--has a central corridor with access to elevators and main stairways...
...answers had better be good. All the standard lures-a private bath, a TV set, a good home-are so old hat that few agencies bother to inquire. The woman who wants help soon learns to rearrange meal schedules to keep cook happy (no more 8:30 dinners), give at least 48 hours' notice before having company. She gladly jitneys the live-out maid to and from home (and waits while she does her shopping), sometimes even turns over the family sedan for the live-in maid's days off (two a week). Modern dayworkers want a solid...