Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national soap manufacturers promised that its Quincy warehouse would give the stuff away by the carton to every Harvard student who splits his shower bath with a dry New York coed...
...first installed everyone was quite pleased with the professional sounding number, Eliot 4-4600. They agreed it gave an air of distinction to the room. At 8 a.m. on the next morning the phone rang. Someone wanted to order shirts. More callers that day wanted to buy rugs, bath mats, and diamond bracelets...
...quiet and do not tempt others," 2) "plenty of fresh air ... is a prime necessity," 3) "at a party where [kissing games] are played, be sure to gargle frequently," 4) "if you feel 'all in' after kissing or being kissed take a hot mustard foot bath...
...painting (by the U.S.'s George Francis) of Surjit Singh, an Indian, who works in the Security Council Library and is famed for his pale pastel turbans. One picture (by Denmark's Olav Mathiesen) of a shy nude and a knight was called Chaucer-Woman in Bath; Mexico's Victor Manzanilla-Schaffer, of U.N.'s narcotics division, contributed an abstraction which looked like a one-eyed blob of ectoplasm, called Ritmo (Rhythm). Asked a wag: "What's that? It looks like UNESCO...
Minor sections of the University's $200,000,000 endowment are invested in corporations that make dog food, hard liquor, bath tubs, aspirins, and cigarettes...