Word: bathed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the 18th century fence builders had really stumbled on something. Little by little he uncovered the lower parts of a magnificent villa that was probably inhabited for 300 years. Beside mosaic flooring, it had sculpture of imported Greek marble, a fine painting of water nymphs, and a heated bath...
Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voellcer, who as Robert Traver wrote the fictional bestselling Anatomy of a Murder, likes an occasional sauna bath with his Finnish neighbors, deplores meddlers who interfere with the harmless customs of free citizens. Last week, writing the opinion for a decision exonerating four nudists, Justice Voelker-who is privately "revolted" by nudism-went after some offensive cops. Four carloads of flatfeet had raided the nudists' camp, "descending upon these unsuspecting souls like storm troopers, herding them before clicking cameras like plucked chickens." It was "indecent-indeed the one big indecency we can find...
...Turkish baths go, the establishment beneath London's Imperial Hotel in Russell Square is one of the best. From its Gothic galleries, stone monarchs and prophets (Queen Elizabeth I, Erasmus) have gazed through the steam at generations of bare, Blimpish backsides. One night last week the steam rooms and massage parlors presented a shocking sight: crowds of people who were fully dressed, or almost. To celebrate the London premiere of Auntie Mame, starring Bea Lillie, Producer David Pelham had picked the Turkish bath as the logical place for a party. The result was as wacky a shindig...
...manage the branch office of his uncle's publishing business. His only feeling about race problems-and in fact most problems-is that he wants no part of them. Born into a family of compulsive do-gooders (he can still remember his mother reading crusading pamphlets in her bath), he candidly admits that "what I really wanted was to enjoy what was left of the privileged life to which I and my kind have no particular right...
...hundreds of castaways found themselves choking in a slimy bath of fuel oil that blinded them, made them retch and vomit to utter exhaustion. Men on rafts were so tossed about that soon they were cut, bleeding and rubbed raw. Those in life jackets faced a different hazard: some of the jackets became waterlogged, sinkers instead of floats...