Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning, as was my daily custom, I went to the Palace and into the sleeping quarters of the President at 5:15 to waken him for his daily exercise, massage and bath; and told him that Armando Andre had been shot a few hours before by "sawed-off" shot guns, through an open window in a house opposite his home, as he was trying to get his latch-key into the keyhole, which was jambed full of cut-off tooth picks. Machado exclaimed "No! That can't be true! It is not possible! Did you see it?" I replied...
...curbed his drinking with a baseball bat. In 1900 Muldoon opened his famed Hygienic Institute at Purchase, N Y., where many a celebrity, including Theodore Roosevelt, Chauncey Depew, Elihu Root and Elbert Hubbard, went to be reconditioned. His chief gifts to athletics were the medicine ball and the shower bath. He and Gene Tunney annually exchanged telegrams on their mutual birthday...
...Brother Gene" sauntered in after a very distressing round in the high go's, but typical of his rebound from distress, he turned on his shower and with that wonderful smile of his, said, "Well-there's one thing certain-I can take as good a bath as any member of this club...
...Denver, Colo., Mrs. Mary Benson, middle-aged and stout, squatted in the tub for her bath, got wedged under the faucets, grew weak, could not pull herself out. Four days later Mrs. F. A. Jones, a neighbor, discovered her plight and called the police, but in her excitement gave the wrong address. When she telephoned again the operator said it was a funny story but not to bother her any more. After still a third call, police came to fetch Neighbor Jones for questioning as a suspicious character, but she induced them to visit the entubbed Mrs. Benson. There they...
...Roosevelt public works program will call for a bond issue of two or three billion dollars. Secretary Perkins' aim is to dry up "pools of unemployment" by financing cheap-home construction, water works, public buildings. She predicted a tremendous market for bath tubs and other plumbing fixtures...