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Shanghai last week was no longer a city of easygoing riches and casual luxury. The Cathay, the smartest hotel on the Bund, into which Sir Victor Sassoon sank some of his Indian millions, was reduced to rationing its guests to two bath towels a week. Outside the Settlement, the Japanese guarded barbed-wire barricades, strong-armed any passer-by who they felt might be a Chinese "terrorist...
...hardest and longest I ever spent." Thereafter grilled relentlessly, he was threatened but never tortured with "the brutal methods of the American police." Fed black bread, ersatz coffee, sour gruel and margarine, he was refused books and newspapers, exercised in goose step half an hour a week, received one bath in seven weeks. Shortly before his transfer to grimmer, notorious Moabit prison, a Gestapo man told him: "You will sit until you confess. You will soften up. You'll be soft as butter...
...overcrowded charcoal-burning bus (motor fuel is rationed), climbs long flights of stairs to his office (electricity for elevators is no longer available), eats his noonday meal,(after showing his rice ration card) and goes home to bed without even the comfort of his much-loved steaming hot-water bath (charcoal is scarce); and wonders about glory...
Sirs: I have just come from a meeting of the "America First (?)"; group addressed by Senator Wheeler. First thing I did was to take a good, healthy bath...
Infrequently practiced, advantages of this method include economy and elimination of the strain on boat and builder during the few seconds in launching when the stern rests in the water, the bow rests on the ways, but nothing supports the waist. Before 1941's end Todd-Bath will have seven basins, some large enough to nurse and float three ships at once...