Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hotels were crowded, but we were able to get one excellent double room with bath at the Eden for two hundred marks a day--a dollar and a half apiece. There were a few remaining scars from military occupancy, and the sheets had apparently been North German Lloyd tablecloths -- otherwise appointments and condition were good. Room service was excellent, and dining room service was excellent, and dining room service approached perfection. The orchestra divided its attention between the lighter classics and "American music"--to wit, jazz,--a condition that seems to be common to France and England as well. Food...
...Bolsheviki, silk-stockinged and stocking less. Yet he seems to have slept like a babe, though there were enemies of society snoring around him as well as good Americans down on their luck. Was it Peters of Harvard or Peters of the slums who took the compulsory shower bath and gave his clothes over for fumigation as No. 69? Did not the blatant Curley, rejected as Mayor, assail Peters as the candidate of "Harvard College and the slums"? If Curley ever slept at a hobo lodging house and chopped wood for his breakfast, it is not of common report. Peters...
There is much serious verse that is good, an editorial that smacks of Lampy's halcyon days and a free translation into Chinese English of the Jimmian equivalent of "two threes" as "one couple in the royal bath for three exalted minutes"--which is not altogether Comstockian. Mr. Choate's and Mr. Behn's drawings are, as ever, exceptionally good, and there is a mildly amusing article on the annoying miscellany of "drives," as well as a Biblical distortion that is funny in spots. On the whole the number is a pleasant one, calculated to "tickle the great American public...
...final results of the campaign are as follows: Suits, 15 Pants, 54 Coats, 53 Vests, 41 Overcoats, 12 Hats and caps, 38 Shoes, pairs, 89 Bath robes, 2 Blanket, 1 Raincoats, 2 Collars, 127 Ties, 161 Socks, pairs, 26 Shirts, 69 Underclothes, 81 Dress suits, 8 Magazines, tons, 2 Books...
...area is at the top of a high hill, more or less isolated from the rest of the camp. Each battery is quartered in four separate buildings, a section to each building. The area is lighted by electricity and equipped with an up-to-date shower bath and toilet system...