Word: bathes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Distressed by the campaign's character, Candidate Sterling, no public speaker, kept in the background, let others do his stumping. He did try to explain the baths in his home: "It's true I built a house down on the bay. ... I had them build a bath for my children's room and there was one for my wife and me, and one for my wife's sister, and we built two guest rooms. ... I don't think there's anything so awful about having a home with bathrooms. ... I hope every citizen...
...moves an unhappy woman who always wears a black veil and who in the end turns out to be the long-lost mother of one of the characters. There is also an unscrupulous society woman, her evil brother, and a country girl whom an artist from the East finds bathing at dawn in a mountain pool. Blond Una Merkel takes the part of this young girl. That her good looks and slow, intense voice will make her important before long is the only interesting suggestion conveyed by the whole silly business. Typical Wright phraseology: "vipers" (for villains), "little minx...
...lashes from a piece of rubber piping or tubing . . . from 100 to 250 strokes. In some cases so many strokes were given that one attendant had to relieve another in applying the strokes. "The Water Cure-so called: This was administered by placing the girl in a shower bath compartment, stripped naked except for bloomers. The cold shower overhead is turned on and a garden hose is used to play cold water from a nearby faucet, full force direct upon the naked body, the hose being held but a few feet from the girl. By testimony of the attendant...
Preliminary "leaks" from the investigators in Warsaw and Copenhagen last week may be thus summarized: Local officials were aghast at the idea that a workman & family should occupy four rooms, surprised at the notion that they should want a bath. Local workmen appeared to be content with two rooms per family, accustomed to dropping in at the municipal baths when dirty. In a terminology more European than American the conclusion seemed to be that an office worker or petit bourgeois is about the lowest class of wage earner who might (possibly) or should (perhaps) have a bathroom in his home...
...Under the stands which surround the Centre Court are the locker rooms for players, a lavatory for Royalty, and a small room with bath attached on the door of which is written: "The Lady Champion." This room has been occupied solely by Helen Wills Moody since 1927. Last week carrying two rackets she left this room, walked onto the Centre Court, trounced Elizabeth Ryan, 6-2, 6-2, returned to her private bath. Next day, she and Miss Ryan beat Edith Cross and Sarah Palfrey for the doubles championship...