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...present there is one place only where I can secure absolute privacy. That is in my bath.* Now I read that even this privacy is to be vouchsafed to me only a little time longer. I view with great trepidation the coming of the day when by television my morning ablutions at St. Albans will be reflected on a screen in New York for the entertainment of the American public...
...reported by Divorce was that of Mrs. Celia Firestone who saw her husband enter the apartment of another woman in the Bronx. Such items, so common in divorce cases, are dull reading. But Divorce also told how a husband complained in court that his wife had not taken a bath in two years; how a wife complained that her husband had made her sleep in the chicken-coop and sell the hens' eggs to provide herself with necessities; how a husband complained that his wife had been attending strip poker parties when he was away at work...
...Press. The Chicago Tribune upheld President Frank. Heywood Broun, columnist of the New York World suggested: "By all means let Dora Russell give her lecture and let Glenn Frank go and take a bath...
...certain observance of good table manners is not an infringement of the freedom of eating; the practice of taking one's morning bath in the bathroom instead of in a glass tub before a mixed audience is not an infringement of the freedom of bathing; and my advice respecting the proposed lecture of Mrs. Russell no more affects the liberalism of the University of Wisconsin or its loyalty to free speech than the Hottentot alphabet-if there is one-affects the selling price of Wisconsin cheese...
...This insult to my personal integrity is unpardonable, especially as Frank's references to taking his bath in public show that his own mind is tortured by a sense of impropriety where the human body is concerned. His whole statement breathes the suggestion that sex subjects are unclean...