Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conqueror of Fiume, he adds praise of D'Annunzio as a politician, businessman, husband, father, and hero of many highly,publicized love affairs. He praises D'Annunzio's "savage modesty" and his desire not to have company in the bathroom when he was taking a bath. He even praises D'Annunzio's bald head. But in this he falls short of D'Annunzio himself, who declared that his "highly polished cranium," as a thing of beauty, could be ranked with a greyhound or the legs of Actress Ida Rubinstein. One of the worst pieces...
After showing off so graciously in front of the hundreds of admirers who met him at the station, Seabiscuit, taken to his stable, relapsed like any normal five-year-old, made an ugly face (see cut, p. 24) when his groom started to give him his bath...
Miss Celeste Holm, the young lady of "The Women" who plays the part of the girl relegated daily to the difficult task of acting from a bath tub, told the CRIMSON "I was terribly nervous and embarrased at first, but I have gotten used to it. The only complaint I have to make with the part is that the water at time is very chilly...
...those days students used to get water in pails from both pumps. They carried the water in pails up to their rooms where they bathed luxuriously in their tin bath tubs...
...years the Mayflower's planks were trod by U. S. Presidents. Taft was too large to use the marble bath presented to his athletic predecessor by Italy. Wilson had an elevator installed, Harding had it removed. Paper cigar-holder in mouth, yachting cap on head, Calvin Coolidge spent some of his happiest hours aboard her. Then Herbert Hoover ordered the Mayflower sold. Six times the Navy called for bids before a syndicate bought her fire damaged hulk, laid her up for seven years. Auctioned off this month at Wilmington, N. C. for $16,000, rumors of the Mayflower...