Word: bathed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...camp in the evening singing: "We'll hang out our washing on the El Wakline." There's a brandy issue. Glorious mail, my stretcher has arrived and another parcel. Two gallons of water per man. Dig a hole, put my ground sheet in-makes a perfect bath and lie flat on my back in the water reading my post-of such is the Kingdom of Heaven...
Towards midnight, a flare burst from a circling airplane, bathed the marsh in man-made moonlight. Boats pushed out from the rushes, pulled alongside the plane's door. Rescuers began removing the passengers. Dr. Crile had begun to wander a bit. "I am Dr. George Crile," he said. "I want a warm bath." Captain O'Brien was unconscious...
...report to the House of Representatives on living conditions in the District of Columbia, Mrs. Helen Duey Hoffman of the Washington Housing Association said: "One bath for 15 or 20 persons is a common grievance. Three to six unrelated roomers in the parlor of a once fine private residence is not uncommon. Renting a vacant bed was once shocking but is now all too frequent. " Washington rents are the highest in the U. S. And there is no relief in sight, for another 100,000 migrants are expected in 1941, and new housing lags far behind demand...
...Hollywood, the events leading up to the grime did not include giving Ellie May the hare lip she has in the stage play. Typically also, old Jeeter finally gets the rent money he has been seeking throughout the picture. In giving the disheveled story a moral scrubbing, a bath of pathos and a sort of happy ending, Hollywood has rubbed off its sharp edges of character and depraved psychology. The film will give its audiences a good idea of what the stage play is not about...
...expenses, he had a time explaining a $20 item for milk. Puffed globular Taxpayer Fields: "I do not drink the liquid myself. I believe the writers. . . used it as a kind of a lubricant. . . . All I know about milk is that it's what Anna Held took a bath in. Ah, Anna Held. . . . There was a chickadee for you, gentlemen...