Word: baths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where "service" is not advertised but given. From a Swedish telephone operator is expected the sort of unstinted satisfaction which a Swedish housemaid gives by shining the family shoes every day, doing the household wash and energetically scrubbing such members of the family as may deign to take a bath. Last week the telephone companies in Stockholm and Gothenburg announced a new era of luxurious telephoning typically Swedish...
...months, lay Earl Carroll, Manhattan theatrical producer, sentenced to a year and a day in Atlanta Penitentiary after being convicted of perjury in connection with Miss Joyce Hawley's famed champagne bath at the Carroll party of Feb. 22, 1926. Collapsing en route to Atlanta (April 13), he had been taken to the Greenville (S. C.) Hospital, had there remained...
...sentence would begin from the time he entered the jail, not from the time he entered the hospital. So Earl Carroll entered Atlanta, was taken to the prison hospital, became No. 24,909. Despatches said that when he regains his health he will be given the position of bath house orderly...
...excluded as "improperly dressed," because he was wearing only ordinary evening clothes, adorned simply with the orders of the Legion of Honor and the Bath. That was not enough. The invitations, by Royal command, called for the full dress uniform to which Lord Byng is entitled by his rank ?a uniform resplendent with scarlet and gold. . . . Court etiquette makes no exceptions. The baron cooled his heels without, while Lady Byng, "properly dressed," dined...
...helped most by the rest they get between 5 and 9 o'clock in the morning. . . . Something can often be done for insomnia by teaching the patient to keep his mind off disturbing thoughts, to avoid mental work or exciting conversations after dinner, to take a warm bath and a little food on retiring and to go to bed earlier. . . . The less the patient sleeps one night, the less he is able to sleep the next, and the only thing that will break the vicious circle is a sedative drug. . . . Morphine is a good pain reliever, but a poor sleep...