Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the War everybody has his troubles, great & small, except Mr. Winburg the tailor, who makes a fortune selling shoddy raincoats. It is his daughter Bella, in whose bath salts are all the perfumes of Arabia, who gives the second, concluding Magnolia Street party, which brings Jews and gentiles together again. By this time, in spite of Author Golding's sincere and humane labors, the reader is likely to be wishing both Jews and gentiles either dead or living without such tedious detail...
...scientific basis, obtained by the CRIMSON from experts in psychology, physics, and even music, has been discovered to explain the widely observed propensity of people to sing in the bath-tub. Disillusioning to some, perhaps, the explanations indicate that few artists of operatic calibre sing unseen...
...small room would heighten the melodic effect, but stated that hard walls acted as excellent resonators and in this way tended to increase the total effect of sound. He further added that, with the exception of wartime, the only occasion when Englishmen abandoned their traditional reserve was in the bath...
...Pratt, professor of Psychology, agreed that the resonant effect peculiar to small, marble halls, was a possible cause of singing, if any, and also suggested that spontaneous bursting into song might result from the pleasurable feel of the water or bath-tub. Another psychologist gave his explanation. "Being alone, we regress to a more infantile level." A well-known University dean, when asked whether he sang while taking a bath, replied, "No, I never take a bath." Questioned further, he denied even singing in the shower. "You get your mouth full of water," he said...
...sliver. He lived in super-Oriental luxury, owned hundreds of shirts, hundreds of neckties, socks, shoes. His house was fitted with every kind of comfort-giving device: buttons that brought soft music from an unseen orchestra, beds that tilted and slid a sleeper gently into a warm, perfumed bath, while violins played. . . . Critics agreed that Author Fitzgerald had imagination; many a college youth dreamed of finding a huge diamond. Last week Bill Paley sailed for the Bahamas with a $10,000,000 diamond in his pocket...