Word: baths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from one room to another, standing hour after hour answering newsmen, posing for photographers, meeting spectators, delegates, anybody. Even when he dashed out to a corner drugstore for a cheese sandwich, newsmen interviewed him as he perched on a stool. A reporter talked to him while he took a bath...
Last week, in a dimly lit room in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, a crowd of robust young women gathered around a bubbling sitz bath, hidebound corsets, steel braces. Some bent over a baby kicking mightily in a whirlpool bathtub (Currence Underwater Therapy Tank). The place looked like a medieval torture chamber, but the young women meant no harm: they were only members of the American Physiotherapy Association, holding their 19th annual convention...
Douglas Reed (Insanity Fair, Disgrace Abounding) is a supercilious, nervous British journalist, erstwhile correspondent of the London Times. His noisome Nemesis? must be taken with a grain of bath salt, but it has intrinsic interest...
...preparatory hum spread through the U. S. last week. Army arsenals at Rock Island, 111., Augusta, Ga., Benicia, Calif., Frankford, Pa., Dover, N. J., Metuchen, N. J.; San Antonio, Tex., Springfield, Mass., Watertown, Mass., Watervliet, N. Y., Edgewood, Md., were put on a six-day week. Two shipbuilders (Bath Iron Works Corp., Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.) bid-o build destroyers in 18 months instead A 24. The Du Fonts ar ranged to build and operate a big powder plant financed by the French and British (see p. 79). Chrysler Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings...
...refugee children)-and I got them out-down 20 kilometres of road by a river and railroad and factories that were being bombed all the way. I made eleven trips back and forth. ... I haven't had my clothes off since last Thursday-God-I need a bath! ... I must stop. Oh, I love you all. Please have America help...