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...last, Miss Ward sat down to address a letter to Lord Hurcomb, chairman of the Transport Commission. "I told him," she said, "that, as a taxpayer, I knew that I subsidized British railways, but I saw no reason why, as a woman, I should subsidize men's baths. He wrote back a nice letter, saying that if I put myself in the hands of the hotel management in future I should be able to get a bath...
During her years (1931-45) as Conservative M.P. for Wallsend, Northumberland, Miss Irene Ward found it necessary to make many trips to London. She used to leave the sleeper at King's Cross Station and go straight to the railways-owned Great Northern Hotel for a morning bath and breakfast. Then, like a wet towel flung in her Tory face, came the Socialist government and its nationalization of railways and railway hotels...
Last week indignant Miss Ward, now M.P. for Tynemouth, told an audience of clubwomen in Newcastle how Socialism had interrupted her matutinal bathing. "One morning recently," she said, "I walked into the hotel and asked for my bath. I was told that the baths were available for men only." Undaunted, she swept upstairs alone, found four vacant bathrooms and took her a bath. "There was no towel," she told the clubwomen, "so I had to dry myself on the bathmat...
...giant Crane Co., Douglas shook hands with a group of independent union workers picketing the plant. He ate lunch with the firemen of Hook & Ladder Truck 41, to whom he admitted that he was feeling pretty stiff and sore. He had slipped and fallen that morning taking his bath. Spike pleaded with him to lie down and rest. The Senator napped for two ho.urs at the firehouse. Then he was off again with his advice to the voters of Illinois...
...sack of Rome by the troops of Emperor Charles V. He talks with Luther and Erasmus, studies with Paracelsus. In this way, the reader gets alternate doses of high and low life that may be intended, like the hot & cold treatments of a Finnish steam bath, to make him tingle all over. In Waltari overdoses, the treatment brings on numbness...