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...while they commit suicide or there's a baby the village hadn't expected. But take the run of them and they're pretty good, salty folks." Of novel-writing: "Last summer I went at it scientifically. I got in good physical condition. I'd take a cold bath, wear only shorts, have a cold drink handy. I'd wallop the typewriter...
Fascinated by the question whether Parisians are dirtier than the citizens of Madrid, that outspoken Spanish daily La Voz commented last week thus: "Curious statistics recently gathered in Paris show an average of only two and three-quarter baths per year per Parisian. Surely in Madrid the average is not so low! Yet we urge the bath strongly as a daily practice of cleanliness. The Greeks and the Romans bathed often but under Christianity, which demanded austerity and deprecated beauty, the bath certainly declined in some countries. The results were uncleanly habits with which too many Spaniards are unhappily still...
During the War everybody has his troubles, great & small, except Mr. Winburg the tailor, who makes a fortune selling shoddy raincoats. It is his daughter Bella, in whose bath salts are all the perfumes of Arabia, who gives the second, concluding Magnolia Street party, which brings Jews and gentiles together again. By this time, in spite of Author Golding's sincere and humane labors, the reader is likely to be wishing both Jews and gentiles either dead or living without such tedious detail...
...small room would heighten the melodic effect, but stated that hard walls acted as excellent resonators and in this way tended to increase the total effect of sound. He further added that, with the exception of wartime, the only occasion when Englishmen abandoned their traditional reserve was in the bath...
...Pratt, professor of Psychology, agreed that the resonant effect peculiar to small, marble halls, was a possible cause of singing, if any, and also suggested that spontaneous bursting into song might result from the pleasurable feel of the water or bath-tub. Another psychologist gave his explanation. "Being alone, we regress to a more infantile level." A well-known University dean, when asked whether he sang while taking a bath, replied, "No, I never take a bath." Questioned further, he denied even singing in the shower. "You get your mouth full of water," he said...