Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor John F. Hylan: "My hotel room at Palm Beach costs $12 a day. I told a reporter that Mrs. Hylan and I have a room and bath, but no maid, no secretary, no animals...
Chaucer'a Wife of Bath put on her finest raiment to go to "pleys of myracles and to mariages", and the England of the days before Shakespeare was always ready for a spectacle performed by a travelling band of "mummers" before the Christmas festivities, or produced by a group of laymen in the shadow of the church. This was so universally true that an eighteenth century commentator on the customs of the fourteenth and fifteenth noted, "that those theatrical pieces called Miracles were their delight beyond all others". The Miracles were to them what the musical comedy and the "problem...
...writer of verse on topics of every day life. The whole world of little intimate human experiences is his field, and no incident is too commonplace to undergo an appealing and entertaining metamorphosis under the touch of his skillful pen. Such homely topics as the Saturday night bath in the old wooden tub, or the quiet pleasures of Christmas in a simple country home, are the subjects that are the favorite of this writer of human interest...
...Billy Sunda tabernacle or a revivalist revival meeting, she might have done so. But she was in Symphony Hall, in Boston, among the cold and dispassionate. Perhaps it is kinder to imagine that she was merely interpreting her feelings on finding that the last piece of soap in the bath-tub had disappeared down the drain-pipe...
...only effect may be to turn the mind for a moment out of its ordinary channels. But in doing that alone, it has accomplished much; the fact that the service is voluntary and sectarian gives it double value. Professor Shaler liked to speak of chapel as his daily "moral bath--as needful, sir, as the other." Most of us would be content with weekly applications. But to go through a year of college without knowing the genuine satisfaction of an Appleton service, is to neglect one of those opportunities which are almost obligations to one's self...