Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State was a liar except the Willmar (Kandiyohi County) Tribune (circulation: 4,562). Ordinary newshawks took this as a slur at their bosses rather than themselves, gratefully remembered that friendly Elmer Benson as a U. S. Senator had given them interviews even while he was taking a bath...
When they returned from breakfast the duck; which they had left paddling around in the bath tub, had disappeared as mysteriously as it came. Leboeuf and Rittman hinted darkly at a plot, and said that investigation had revealed that "a certain party" had purchased one live duck for 96 cents...
Last week Colonel James Alfred Moss, president general of the U.S. Flag Association, piped up, explained all. The answer: "...If eating at a table, talking over the telephone, playing cards, cooking a meal or taking a bath, standing at attention would be forced and unnatural and therefore should not be done...
...Holland-America Line motorship Noordam, with a holdful of reasons why her maiden voyage should be considered an important item of marine intelligence. Second unit of a new Holland-America fleet,* she enjoyed the distinction of being the only transatlantic ship ever built with a private bath in every passenger cabin. A neat combination of freighter and passenger ship, her high-set midship superstructure is calculated to provide first-class passenger comfort at tourist rates ($253 round trip), while her low-slung fore & aft cargo decks make money on freight. The Noordam cost $2,300,000, can carry...
...studying electric discharge in gases. Still alive, a Grand Old Man of 82, Sir Joseph strolls about in a black bowler with a cane clutched behind his back, attends "hall" (dinner) once a week, still putters in an old laboratory, is said by irreverent students never to take a bath. He got his Nobel Prize...