Word: bathing
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...President of Harvard and the President of Yale. Into the tub went the Empire's nameless, seven-day-old Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. 1). While he was washed, the voices of the savants reading from ancient books were louder than the bowstrings. Clean after his first bath, the babe was swathed in a kimono of heavy white silk, the gift of Dowager Empress Sadako, most revered female in Japan. Only then was he ready to be named...
Seven days after birth the babe will receive a name, painted by Emperor Hirohito on a sheet of soft white paper, carried with pomp by an Imperial Messenger into the infant's presence. Same day Japan's Crown Prince will get his first bath, a rite of such antiquity that all its meanings are no longer known. While the babe is washed attendants will twang on bow strings as sages seated behind a screen read in loud and awful tones eloquent passages from ancient books...
...flagship of the British Destroyer Flotilla, he trained his guns on Austrian submarines. For that they gave him the D. S. 0. In 1918 he sat at the Admiralty desk of "Director of Operations." For that they made him a Companion of the Bath, an officer of the Legion of Honor, gave him the Rising Sun of Japan and the D. S. M. of the U. S. In 1923, a rear admiral, he retired, took a job as general manager for Western Union in Europe, trained his guns on efficiency in communications. For that, Western Union last week made...
...Lowell House spy tells us that when Professor Julian Lowell Coolidge takes his Saturday night bath, he is entertained in the tub by a fleet of celluloid ducks. This sounds two good two be twue...
...Soviet women between the ages of 18 and 45 do work, place their children in day nurseries. Among the Soviets these institutions serve as quotidian orphan asylums. When a woman brings her child to a nursery for keeping while she works, the child is given a physical examination, a bath and a clean uniform. If ill in any way, the child is segregated. All the children have individual towels, drinking cups, tooth brushes. All are taught young how to care for themselves. In 1932, there were 3,000,000 Russian children in such nurseries. Concerning this system the reporters comment...