Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prussian prisoners are provided with only one bath in four weeks; they are allowed a weekly ration of only 125 grams of meat; saccharine they are given for sugar; their linen is changed but fortnightly. All this is to economize. Berlin journals said it was short-sighted and that prisoners will leave jail more angry than when they entered...
...saving of lives" is an opinion accepted in the medical world. His famous book, dedicated to "The Young Mothers of America," is in the nature of a catechism. It asks and answers such questions as these: "At what age may a child be given a full tub bath?" "At what age should a child first laugh aloud?" "When should a child walk alone?" "How many teeth are there in the first set?" "Why should mothers nurse their children?" "Is rocking (in sleep) necessary?" "How much crying is normal for a very young baby?" "What is the cry of pain...
...become popular of inventing expressive nick-names of sufficient repulsiveness to apply to nuisances and wrong-doors of every kind. If one is plagued by cigarette borrowers, one can wreak one's vengeance by calling them "ciggabars" or "gottabutts". Or if one's room mate insists on leaving the bath-room door open when the bed-room window is up, one might effectively insult him with the epithet "atmophile", or even in extreme cases "aerodome". The possibilities of this sort of thing are really unlimited. Mr. King little knows what potent forces he has unleashed...
Once the unsportsmanlike downpour, however, having seen its victims definitely wedged each in his own Sitz bath, had started in to do a little constructive drenching, the laugh was shed gently from the oilcloth shoulders of the proletariat onto the sogginess of mackintosh and rubber-silk rainster. It is not hard to predict that another such a day will see the covering of mother's kitchen table going at a premium and linoleum lap-robes across the knees of the elite...
...members are Frank Gray (42) for Oxford City and Captain Ainsworth (48) for Bury. Bath men saw service in the War. The wager is the outcome of a jocular remark made by Gray to the effect that he would outwalk any man his age from Banbury to Oxford...