Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornhill Magazine had its day, and the Yellow Book, and the Little Review; with tear in eye one will soon add the American Mercury to the list of extinguished balls of fire. The October issue contains only two contributions from Mr. Mencken; rumor bath it that he has withdrawn from its financial camorra, and the assumption is that a man's purse liea nearest his heart. Yet without even a Mencken editorial the magazine manages to decline gracefully. To the college student an article by one E. H. Orr on "The Impossibility of Education" is the piece do resistance...
...crooning of Helen Morgan for Bi-So-Dol, stomach sweetener, at 2 p. m. Sundays. Tenor John McCormack will sing lush Irish ballads for Vince mouthwash. Spindling Nat Shilkret & orchestra will provide a background for the Vitamin A in Smith Brothers couph-drops. Nino Martini will sing for Lirit bath softener. Actor Fred Stone, a comparative newcomer to radio, will have his wife and three daughters with him on a Gulf Refining Co. program...
...forward masculinity is unrestrained by wing collar or the stare of social dictators. Chester Morris is the prodigal who leaves the farm and "cleans up" in the Chicago Wheat Pit. He does this by the simple expedient of dressing up in rubber coat and hat, walking under a shower bath, and stampeding the Pit by crying. "Rain, rain," thus forcing down the price about ten cents and crowning his bear operations with success. This is accomplished before anyone has the presence of mind to look out the window...
That fact accounted for the columns and columns of space the Press of the country gave last week to the bruise which Huey Pierce Long, Louisiana's tousle-headed, button-nosed "Kingfish," received on his left eye in the washroom of the Sands Point Bath Club fortnight...
...already. I'll eat this." He danced just once-until his partner's husband took the lady away. He thrust himself behind the bar, shoved its tender aside, loudly proclaimed that he would show the world how they mix and shake them in Louisiana. The Sands Point Bath Club is not noted for decorum on Saturday nights but Senator Long's behavior was far over its mark...