Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 30, 1925 some $600,000 worth of jewelry disappeared from the Manhattan hotel room of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue, while the daughter of the founder of the 5 & 10? store fortune was taking a bath. On Oct. 13 Noel Scaffa walked into police headquarters, laid down a brown paper parcel containing all the jewels. He had got them, he said later, from one Sam Layton in exchange for a $65,000 reward posted by the company with which Mrs. Donahue had insured her jewels. On Oct. 23 Chief Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora had Scaffa indicted for compounding...
...will be more or less familiar to everyone, the French outline with charming delicacy the story of the little grisette who, coming to Paris with much beauty and no money, sets out upon the primrose path. Just what particular gentleman is paying for her sumptuous lodgings, her lace-hung bath, and her carriage is left indefluite, but there is no doubt that all vie for the privilege. After meeting at a carnival, Marguerite Gautier (Yvonne Printemps) and her idealistic young lover, Armand Duval, escape to a cottage in the campagne. An admirable restraint marks the scene in which Armand...
This is the tale of a tub, and it concerns a Harvard professor of large dimensions who felt the urge to take a bath after two weeks of truly Arabic abstention from the use of water. This gentleman had been archeologizing with a Harvard expedition at Mt. Sinai, where a Greek Catholic monastery boasts a magnificent library of manuscripts, but suffers a chronic shortage of water for which it is equally noted...
...visit this holy place grow beards because there is not water enough to shave in, our professor, who stands six feet seven inches in his stocking feet and carries some three hundred and nine pounds, made bold to ask the archbishop if he could take a bath. Through gratitude or fear of this man mountain, the archbishop murmured a Greek Orthodox assent through his archiepiscopal beard...
Though they angered Roosevelt I the most, monopolies in tobacco, oil and whiskey were not the only U. S. trusts. The Bath Tub Trust made exciting news in 1899. The Wallpaper Trust was a failure...