Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only beautiful thing in that village of drying fish and stuffy sitting rooms? But the centre of gravity is, as always, Trader Mack. The return of his tall, erotic daughter from Denmark, the brilliant suicide of Rosa's first husband, the burial of his great featherbed bath-tub? none of these shakes the hold of Mack, the strong silent man, over the fumblers about him. Honest British...
...troubles in the Ghetto, but it is far more readily appreciated. Miss Prevost is given a chance to display her saucy mischievous talent in a hectic tale of thieves and thievery. Mr. Brook in his calm imperturbable way is called upon to sleep below a dripping shower in the bath-tub. There are momentary chances for Lubitsch subtlety which are ignored. But the direction has added instead a dash of slapstick. Only one character in the picture is honest, and he turns out to be a policeman, which is a good enough joke in itself to show the irresponsible tendencies...
What Happened to Jones. Most of it happened in a Turkish bath on ladies' night. It was also the night before Mr. Jones' wedding. With Reginald Denny and pretty funny...
...will remove from our streets graced by these monuments all this contamination of tramways, but you will give the most modern means of communication to the new city which will rise in rings around the old one. You will give schools, bath houses, parks and athletic fields to the Fascist people who work...
...wonder if you realise that your readers are utterly disgusted with "flaying" and "flayers"? I wish heartily that in the future you return such epistles to their respective writers with a brief note advising them to take a cold bath, which will either cool down their ardor for writing altogether or induce them to rewrite their "stuff" in a gentlemanly manner...