Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that superlative draughtsman, who alone of all painters has immortalized the beauty of awkwardness, knew what he was talking about. Miss Cassatt could draw. At that time she had not come under Degas' influence but had caught her inspiration from the floating, luminous figures of Correggio. "Maternity," "The Bath," "Mother's Cares," "Breakfast in Bed," "Children Playing with a Cat," are titles that more befit memorial calendars than good paintings. Critics have hinted that Miss Cassatt might have painted better if she had been married; maternity would then have had less fascination for her. This is a shallow...
...Haven, Conn., June 10--Yale bowl is receiving its triennial bath of paint. Every third year the woodwork in the great enclosure is given two coats of paint, a job which takes twenty men three months to complete...
...over a precipice. Mr. Griffith starts by making love to a gunman's wife, is surprised by the husband and terrified by his artillery. The rest of the picture is the old movies comedy-chase. Mr. Griffith drives a fire truck through heavily populated streets, invades a Turkish bath. These things are, as always, funny...
...pressmen and notables on the night of the formal opening. He, a Manhattan Jew whose fine necktie bore witness to his shrewdness, explained that, in order to cater to that sense of Asiatic luxury which is "proper to every good Jew," he had built the hotel around a bath. The Christians who objected to sharing their public quarters with Jews had no such splendid bath as this-no, nor had Augustus Caesar, nor has the most pompous sybarite in Hollywood. The notables, the pressmen inspected the hotel-a steel and concrete Joseph's coat, a terraced temple of fantastic...
...putting diamonds away in steel lockers, these and the magazine-stall, shingled with bright colors, the crystal glory of the cigar-stand, the drug-annex with its hint of smells still unexplored-are all but promises, all but dramatic fingers pointing upward to that supreme enchantment of all, the bath...