Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earl Carroll: "I sailed last week for Manhattan from England, where I have just been enjoying a quiet holiday before my forthcoming Manhattan retrial for perjury (TIME, May 31) in connection with a party, at which one of my chorus girls emerged naked from a bath of champagne. Dining in London with a dramatic critic, I remarked: 'I find that in America leg shows bring cultured people all around me. In fact. I might be a prizefighter.' 'Then you would be popular over here,' said he. 1 replied: 'I might even be made Knight...
...betters is edifying but to express one's own personality is more amusing. Ring Lardner can convulse It is readers with a tense drama, the scene of which is laid on a bath mat. Very few Englishmen, however, and very few Victorians would see any humor in Mr. Lardner. And similarly with Donald Ogden Stewart, Robert Benchley--although he is more universal than the rest--and Milt Gross. The fact that there are at least five magazines who make a business of culling their material from the files of university and college publications all over the nation would appear...
Several characters from Constantinople fell in the drinking fountain and had a Turkish bath. Wild west characters with guns and spurs rode the floor to perfection, not pulling leather either...
Clad in a bathing cap and a coat of black axle grease and nothing else, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmell, a mother, climbed out of New York Harbor into a sheet held by her sister, while whistles screeched and 200 rain-soaked persons hailed her with cheers. She had swum from Albany to the Battery (160 miles) in 57 hr. 11 min., swimming time, beating by 6 hr. 24 min. the record made in 1921 by Mrs. Corson.* She lost 4 pounds, used 72 pounds of fat, ate lumps of sugar soaked in whiskey. Having handed Mayor Walker a letter from...
...conclusion of the bath she anoints her hair with coconut oil in which some particles of coconut meat may be seen and then knots her hair up out of her way and washes any clothes she may desire to clean. Then in her wet clothing she goes home for dry, and to comb and dry her hair. JASON M. WALLING...