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...eyes are bleary; men's souls are tired; their feet are sore; their heads are heavy; they are needing rest; they are needing sleep; they are needing nourishment; and it is only two days from Saturday, when most of them will want to take a bath...
...time he spends on the seventh floor of the Mirror Building, behind a door marked "International Research Laboratories, Inc." There, with his staff of technicians, he has produced a machine to make a half-tone engraving in four minutes instead of the customary hour. Instead of the usual acid bath, the Howey machine employs a photoelectric eye which scans the photograph. The impulses from the electric eye actuate a cutting tool which etches the lights & shades of the picture into a revolving half-cylinder of metal...
...Sept. 30, 1925 some $600,000 worth of jewelry disappeared from the Manhattan hotel room of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue, while the daughter of the founder of the 5 & 10? store fortune was taking a bath. On Oct. 13 Noel Scaffa walked into police headquarters, laid down a brown paper parcel containing all the jewels. He had got them, he said later, from one Sam Layton in exchange for a $65,000 reward posted by the company with which Mrs. Donahue had insured her jewels. On Oct. 23 Chief Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora had Scaffa indicted for compounding...
...will be more or less familiar to everyone, the French outline with charming delicacy the story of the little grisette who, coming to Paris with much beauty and no money, sets out upon the primrose path. Just what particular gentleman is paying for her sumptuous lodgings, her lace-hung bath, and her carriage is left indefluite, but there is no doubt that all vie for the privilege. After meeting at a carnival, Marguerite Gautier (Yvonne Printemps) and her idealistic young lover, Armand Duval, escape to a cottage in the campagne. An admirable restraint marks the scene in which Armand...
...visit this holy place grow beards because there is not water enough to shave in, our professor, who stands six feet seven inches in his stocking feet and carries some three hundred and nine pounds, made bold to ask the archbishop if he could take a bath. Through gratitude or fear of this man mountain, the archbishop murmured a Greek Orthodox assent through his archiepiscopal beard...