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Word: baths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more spotlighted during its harassed tryout than are most hits at the peak of their run. Such so-so plays as Anastasia and Inherit the Wind packed enough second-act wallop to have the whole town talking. House of Flowers featured gorgeous rival bordellos, Lunatics and Lovers a bubble bath onstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Final Score | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...Crockett clubs, marked off special Davy Crockett sections where youngsters can find everything from a Davy Crockett peace pipe (98?) to a complete Davy Crockett outfit with rifle, powder horn, cap, etc. ($7.98); a Davy Crockett guitar costs $4.98 extra. Denver's May Co. advertises a Davy Crockett bath towel, with this pitch to mothers: "Your bathtime struggles are over . . . They'll run to use Davy Crockett towels." Davy Crock-etteer Fess Parker, who stars in Disney's TV series, has already endorsed and helped sell 450,000 copies of sheet music of The Ballad of Davy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Wild Frontier | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...gambling Las Vegas, he played one nickel in one slot machine. It was, he said, a ritual that he performs each time he goes to Nevada to watch A-bombs - "dipping my toe in the water at a famous bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...country inns still charge only $3 for bed and breakfast. In Spain prices are as low as $2.50 for a room, $2 for a dinner, including wine and cognac, but rooms in good hotels are as scarce as American whisky. In Germany a de luxe room and bath costs $6 or less and a man-sized steak with a half-bottle of wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Biggest Season | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...soon as all ladies had left the Yard, the residents of Holworthy would come charging down the lawn, taking off their clothes as they ran. The goal of so strange a chase was the fountain erected each year to commemorate Class Day. Eventually the practice of taking an annual bath in the Yard spread to the whole college...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Holworthy Hall | 5/13/1955 | See Source »

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