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...including emasculation) in old Premier Rakosi's Stalinist jail, thus represented to despairing Hungarians a glimmering hope of a better Communist leadership. Kadar soon destroyed what hope there was. His guarantees of democratic reforms never came through; vows of amnesty for revolt heroes were broken in a blood bath of summary trials; the workers' councils got promised support just long enough to identify and destroy their leaders. All that remained of Kadar's reputation was a sickly stench. Last week the Russians replaced Kadar with Dr. Ferenc Munnich, 72, Moscow-line former Secret Police boss...
Well he kept her there in a bath...
With a gallon of Lysol in a bath...
...such keenly observed detail as a wife's nettling way of pulling electric plugs by the cord, or how a small boy can reduce a kitchen to shambles in the simple act of trying to get a drink of water, or how two boys gravely fake taking a bath by wetting washrags and towels and tossing a handful of "turtle dirt" into the draining bathwater because "it leaves a good ring...
...Lord Rokeby (born 1712) had a yen for recitations, beards and baths (fresh or salt). "With commendable firmness," he would remain in the ocean "until he fainted and had to be withdrawn forcibly." At his country seat, Lord Rokeby built a bath "rendered tepid by the rays of the sun only," sat in it, reciting, with his long beard below the water line. In his declining years, he rarely left his bath, only relented on special occasions, e.g.: 1) "in order to receive Prince William of Gloucester at dinner," 2) to vote "in the general election of 1796" (Tory William...