Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Handsome Traveller: "Can you give me a room and bath...
...their children. At 4:30 a. m. on the fatal morning last week, the Obregon family were sound asleep in their beds when the bomb went off in their bathroom. Potent, the explosion tore through the bathroom wall, wrecked Son- in-Law Obregon's expensive plate-glass shower bath, hurled some of the bits of glass with such terrific force as to embed them in the wall...
...guilty soldier was soon seized. He confessed in a daze of fear, kept murmuring, "I cannot understand how El Gallo [The Rooster] escaped." To persons more familiar with the presidential plumbing, explanation was easy. In providing a sumptuous bath for His Excellency's son-in-law, the plumbers had switched over the President's former ventilation pipe to ventilate the Obregons...
...went about grotesquely dressed, carrying a faded umbrella, wearing a ludicrous plug hat. He was mannerless, unkempt, and one wonders if he was not unwashed, in those days of the weekly bath in the foot tub, if a bath was taken at all. [As attorney, for the Illinois Central R. R. he was found] riding about on special trains furnished him and posing as 'Humble Abe Lincoln...
...Krynica. On the express trains that run from Warsaw three times a week, Polish sport fans rode out to Krynica, their winter sports resort, and put up at the big grey Hotel Lwigrod where you can get a room, meals and a real bath for $4.50 per day. The hotel was crowded because in Krynica last week was being played the international amateur hockey tournament. The tournament is decided by the total number of goals scored by a team in all its games after the preliminary eliminations, and U. S. supporters were worried at first that their entry?the Boston...