Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lashes from a piece of rubber piping or tubing . . . from 100 to 250 strokes. In some cases so many strokes were given that one attendant had to relieve another in applying the strokes. "The Water Cure-so called: This was administered by placing the girl in a shower bath compartment, stripped naked except for bloomers. The cold shower overhead is turned on and a garden hose is used to play cold water from a nearby faucet, full force direct upon the naked body, the hose being held but a few feet from the girl. By testimony of the attendant...
Four rooms & bath, a car, a radio-that is the "standard of living" of a Ford workman in Detroit according to experts of the International Labor Office at Geneva (TIME, April 7). Last week these experts started on the second phase of the investigation they are conducting at Mr. Ford's request. In Poland and in Denmark they began asking about house rents, started pricing cars, radios, clothes, food, amusements. They showed startled shopkeepers whole trunkfuls of clothes and underclothes previously worn by Detroit workmen and their families, asked: "How much will garments of exactly the same quality cost...
Preliminary "leaks" from the investigators in Warsaw and Copenhagen last week may be thus summarized: Local officials were aghast at the idea that a workman & family should occupy four rooms, surprised at the notion that they should want a bath. Local workmen appeared to be content with two rooms per family, accustomed to dropping in at the municipal baths when dirty. In a terminology more European than American the conclusion seemed to be that an office worker or petit bourgeois is about the lowest class of wage earner who might (possibly) or should (perhaps) have a bathroom in his home...
...Under the stands which surround the Centre Court are the locker rooms for players, a lavatory for Royalty, and a small room with bath attached on the door of which is written: "The Lady Champion." This room has been occupied solely by Helen Wills Moody since 1927. Last week carrying two rackets she left this room, walked onto the Centre Court, trounced Elizabeth Ryan, 6-2, 6-2, returned to her private bath. Next day, she and Miss Ryan beat Edith Cross and Sarah Palfrey for the doubles championship...
PARLOR, BEDLAM & BATH-S. J. Perelman & Q. J. Reynolds-Liveright...