Word: bathed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house across from the Episcopal Cathedral, where he lives amid green lawns and shrubberies in the admiration of a highly intelligent wife, two secretaries, a young lady researcher and a pair of French poodles, he went into his study to digest the daily papers. Then, at his desk in bath robe and slippers, he polished off the morning's chore of writing. With the help of the young lady researcher, who has an office on the third floor, he has checked and rechecked his facts. If it is the day for the column to go to press...
John, 21, suffered from a childhood predilection for wringing the necks of chickens. Last year when two little Bath girls were found strangled, John, who had already been certified as feebleminded, was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and committed to Broadmoor. There, he behaved so well that he was given the privilege of wearing civilian clothes...
With feet, it is sheer physical strain. A campaigner is usually on his feet 12 to 14 hours a day, said Taft, and ends the day with a foot bath of warm Epsom salts. With food, it's the monotony. In the old days it was always chicken. At one time, he recalled wistfully, it was cold roast beef-until the price of beef went too high. Today it's ham-cold or hot, baked or boiled-but almost always ham, "frequently with raisin sauce." (Taft, delayed by a television appearance, missed the Lions' menu: filet mignon...
With security measures thus complete, the trial got under way. It was an action by a Brighton shopgirl named Diana Grace Rains-Bath against Russian-born U.S. Hypnotist Ralph Slater (real name Joseph Bolsky) for damage incurred during a music-hall show three years ago. Slater, Diana charged, had not only hypnotized her in the course of his act as he intended, but sent her home in a psychological depression that lasted almost three years. It took, she said, 23 visits to Australian-born Dr. Sydney Van Pelt, president of the British Society of Medical Hypnotists and avowed...
...After four months of loafing around the campus Coke machines, a U.S. Secret Service agent pounced on three University of Wyoming students and hustled them off to jail. Their crime: shrinking pennies to dime-size in a one-minute bath of nitric acid. The law conceded that only about $20 worth of Cokes had been stolen in all, and that as many as 20 other students had done the same thing, but it still charged the three pranksters with mutilating U.S. currency. Bail was set at $1,000 apiece. Maximum penalty: a $2,000 fine and five years in jail...