Word: baths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Picasso's favorite soldier gift came last summer from an art student in a combat unit then fighting southeast of Paris. The soldier motorcycled in to see the artist. Picasso gave him a bath and a drink. The soldier noticed an empty coffee tin on the table; Picasso confessed that he liked coffee but couldn't get it. The soldier ran downstairs, climbed on his motorbike, lit out for the front. In a couple of hours he was back with a big tin of coffee...
...francs on the eve of World War I, in which his father and he were about to gamble away an empire; the days when gay Edward VII brought along the prim Prince of Wales (later George V) who said: "It's like a Turkish bath in there. Goodness knows how Father manages to stick it!''; and Alexandra, Tsarina of all the Russias, who brought along a whole corps of the Imperial Ballet to dance while she gambled-chance can be such a bore...
...Lincolnshire grocer last week became one of the top dignitaries in the Church of England. Nominated by King George VI to be Bishop of London* was popular, friendly Right Rev. John William Charles Wand, 60, Bishop of Bath & Wells (TIME, Sept...
Oxford was the next stop. Q lived in Cardinal Newman's old rooms, bathed in His Eminence's old tin bath. He paid the customary Sunday calls on fellow undergraduates in morning dress and top hat. He watched Poet Matthew Arnold (in lavender kid gloves) "slipping through the Balliol gateway" on visits to Platonist Benjamin Jowett (who seemed to be always "hurrying, like Puck, to 'hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear'"). He saw Lewis Carroll "flitting, flitting like a shy bird into some recess of Christ Church." He sat at the feet...
...that of Britain or the U.S., but lower than that of most Asiatic countries. By nature, the Japanese are very active breeders, and compared with the number of chances given annually for conception, their actual conception rate is probably low. I believe that if the Japanese dropped the hot bath habit their birth rate would be higher still...