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Last week one of Dickie's friends asked him to play Indian. He agreed. But at the last minute he decided to try a different game. He put on a yellow sweat shirt, tied a bath towel around his neck like a cape. The boys headed for a 25-foot embankment. Dickie walked back from the brink, turned, ran as hard as he could, and jumped out into the air. He fell on his stomach. He lay on the ground, scratched and dirty, and unable to get up. His mother, summoned by the playmate, hurried him to a doctor...
After a sliver of glass hit her right eye during the goblet-smashing scene in Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera House, Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens carried on to the end of the act. During intermission she had the splinter removed. Then, relying on a boric-acid eye bath, she turned down an unglamorous bandage, sang through the last...
Mike Todd's Peep Show is another of this ilk. The finale is indicative of the whole show 50 girls 50 in a bubble bath...
...town had one big worry. If he comes, will the Tibetan God-King bring enough sheets? In 1910 frenzied devotees kept ripping the exalted exile's linen to bits to preserve as sacred objects, along with the dust from his room and his holy bath water...
...whole thing, explained a railways official later on, was undoubtedly the fault of a literal-minded desk clerk. Back in pre-nationalization days, he said, the hotel had a ruling forbidding women to barge in off the streets for baths. Miss Ward's case, he thought, might fairly be called "an isolated incident [but] the one thing we were sure about all along was that she would get her bath, come what...