Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard about the private bathroom in blue marble in Mr. Ickes' office," snorted Joe Bailey, "but I've never seen it and I wouldn't go so far as to say that Mr. Ickes takes a bath." With an angry gesture he raised his arm and wham, flung the book to the floor. In a twinkling, Oklahoma Democrat Elmer Thomas scrambled over to pick it up, lay it gently on a desk. At this point tobacco-chewing Cotton Ed Smith, who had no doubt been restrained by his colleagues from giving his standard anti-lynching argument on behalf of Southern...
...first item declared that His Majesty had been graciously pleased to elevate Sir Robert to the title of Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. The second announced that the Prime Minister had caused to be created for Sir Robert the new post of Chief Adviser to the Foreign Office. His duties, according to this unusual official announcement, will be "advising the Secretary of State [Anthony Eden] upon all major questions of policy concerning foreign affairs . . . and representing the Foreign Office on any occasions, whether at home or abroad...
...accomplished actors who perform the thwacking horseplay in fine style. As the ruddy little Crispin who becomes Lord Mayor of London, Whitford Kane personifies all the industry, sanity and lustiness of a jolly beefeater. Marian Warring-Manley as his good wife, Margery, waddles it like all the Wives of Bath and Mistress Quicklys who have dedicated their big bosoms and broad buttocks to England's earthy spirit...
...clientele supposedly unsatisfied by either Look or LIFE. Picture makes no attempt to create sensations or cover the news, goes in for illustrated expositions of topics like the life of a chorus girl, the dangers of lightning, "Strange Animal Diets." what happens to you in a Turkish bath, how Connecticut operates its premarital, Wassermann testing, the way to give a bum a new lease on life, how San Francisco cultivates potential artists, aged...
...Having practically the same chemical composition as wool, it is made by mixing acid with skim milk. This extracts the casein, which looks like pot cheese. Evaporated to crystals, it is pulverized and dissolved into a molasses consistency, then forced through spinnerets like macaroni, passed through a hardening chemical bath, cut into fibres of any desired length. From 100 pounds of skim milk come 3.7 pounds of casein which converts to the same weight of lanital.* Readily dyed, it can be distinguished from wool only by experts, is mothproof...