Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have to know your business around here, and its a mighty complicated one. First you break your back talking Jupiter or that Venus for a ride, and the next minute you have to give some Chinese jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...
...could the judge do with them? All were sobered: They would crowd the jail. The workhouse would take them only if they were to stay 10 days. The judge had lights arranged and examined 133 rough necks, 266 trouser pockets. Those with dirty necks and no money for a bath, he sent to the workhouse. Others he freed. Historians recalled that not 100 years ago there were laws against owning bathtubs but no laws against taking a drink...
...building money from rich men, who are more than glad to get 5% certain earnings on their investments. With this cheap construction money he puts up apartments that rent, on the average, for $2.53 a room a week. In the latest buildings each apartment has electric lights and private bath. In older constructions, lacking these conveniences, the average rent is $1.99 a room a week. The tenants pay their rent promptly. One year, when total rentals were $826,483, only $18 remained unpaid. During the generation that the City & Suburban Homes Co. has functioned, unpaid rents have averaged...
...Wife of Bath Ahoy...
When F. V. Morley, brother of thunderer upon the left Christopher Morley, set sail with two friends down the Thames? in their converted ship's lifeboat Wife of Bath he naturally found many such bits of rare Anglicana as the Martyr's epitaph above. Young Morley, like his columnist-novelist brother, is one of those for whom any river will wimple with apt allusion. Half the poets of England creep into Mr. Morley's book, a pat line or stanza from each. And he can himself do such sure telling bits as: "The first lock, by Inglesham Round House, holds...