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...John Shively Knight bought the Chicago Daily News in 1944, he stood in the plaza in front of the News building with Executive Editor Basil L. Walters and eyed the bubbling fountain in its center. Said "Stuffy" Walters : "When we pay off the mortgage, I'll take a bath in that fountain." Replied...
...writer should bathe as often as he is in need of a bath...
Dealer Hayden demonstrated a Stanley bath brush, a man's curved hair brush ("if your husband can use it, it proves he hasn't a flat head") and Stanley combs which "never go to the dentist, because their teeth stay in." In 45 minutes, she showed 50 different items, took in $43 in orders-more than enough to earn a set of table knives for her hostess, and a commission of about $14 for herself...
...bath water . . . pours from the taps with a great splash of sound, and as it runs you sing above it . . . It's funny, Maria would think, soaping herself with a loofah, that in the evening, if you have a bath, your tummy is round and rather full, but in the morning it is flat as a board, and hard...
...Author du Maurier, soap her bohemian loofah as she may, fails to froth up a single sud of glamour or blow one bubble of poignant sadness. Even the title she has chosen suggests that Author du Maurier may have felt like apologizing a bit for having run so much bath water to so little purpose...