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...expenses, he had a time explaining a $20 item for milk. Puffed globular Taxpayer Fields: "I do not drink the liquid myself. I believe the writers. . . used it as a kind of a lubricant. . . . All I know about milk is that it's what Anna Held took a bath in. Ah, Anna Held. . . . There was a chickadee for you, gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 3, 1941 | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...When, after the award was announced, a reporter tried to stop the scurrying prizewinner for questions, Martin du Card refused to talk. The reporter asked why. For the same reason, explained the author, that he would not let his four-year-old grandson watch him take a bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End of a Family | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

Last week a Birmingham (Ala.) newspaper advertisement read: "Daily baths help you guard against any cold catching. ... At least once a day take a refreshing bath." The advertiser: Birmingham Water Works Co., privately owned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: They Still Want Gold | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...trial was that of a Negro butler-chauffeur accused of raping his young socialite employer, Eleanor Strubing, pretty wife of an advertising executive in Greenwich, Conn., suburb of New York City. According to her testimony she found him in her bedroom one evening when she emerged from a shower bath wearing only a towel, was raped thrice in various parts of the house, bound, gagged, threatened with a knife, taken for two automobile rides, finally thrown into an icy reservoir near which she was found hysterical. The Negro's defense was that she had invited his advances. A jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Behavior | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

Today a poet has replaced Copey as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and the famous bath sponge no more hangs out to dry from the third floor of Hollis every Saturday night. Copey has ripened into a living legend which will remain a part of the college as long as tradition exists. Harvard will not forget the sympathetic mentor who first rubbed out the Harvard indifference between Faculty and students; the instructor of whom John Reed could say "He stimulated generations of men to find color and strength and beauty in books and in the world, and to express...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/5/1941 | See Source »

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