Word: bathed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Electrocution. Doomed people kept for weeks in dirtiness were promised a shower bath. When they entered the cabin they stepped on a high-tension metal...
...vapor-bath system which sprays the bather with various chemicals. Price: $2,200. It was represented as effective for diabetes, abscess of the lung, decay of the jawbones, blood poisoning, a long list of other ailments...
...tall, middle-aged Harry Bracy sold Kroger his chain of some 30 Thrift Stores for $1,000,000. He took a vacation trip to New York, where his chief dissipation was a ride on a rubberneck bus. Then he went back to his one room and bath in Carbondale's Roberts Hotel. Kroger soon found that business in the former Thrift Stores territory was dropping off. The company called in Bracy, by then bored at separation from his beloved stores. He told Kroger: "Give me a salary plus percentage of sales and no limit." Kroger agreed and put Bracy...
Preoccupation. In Bath, England, Joane Rittner, caught driving without a license, wrote to the court to explain that she neglected to renew her old one, "owing to the following duties: nursing an invalid son and a daughter, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, queuing, and also grappling with ration books, children's emergency cards, priority milk cards, bread units, laundry, chimney sweeps, window cleaners, all preliminary arrangements prior to moving to a new house, moving to new house, and all necessary preparations for the birth of my fourth child next month...
...quarter to 7 when the Pope enters the bathroom and turns on his own bath. The water can be electrically heated, but the Pope prefers it cold, even in winter. (He is a believer in the Kneipp system of fighting colds with cold.) After his bath, he shaves with an electric razor and dresses rapidly. Usually his vestments are changed from the day before. His indoor shoes are made of cloth (red, except on Good Friday, when he wears white) and are left every night to be cleaned along with the vestments...