Word: baths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burglar stopped long enough to shave and take a bath, but took nothing else from the room...
...small and medium-sized business, discussed the importance of flexibility in the young executive. Don't choose some particular field such as sales, and refuse to try production or marketing. He advised the young graduate to choose a large business. The impersonalism found in them is a "good shower bath...
Perhaps the most unique feature that Kirkland House offers is its choice between bathtubs and showers. One part of the House dates back some 50 years, when bath tubs were stylish, but the smaller annex is more up-to-date...
Died. Sir Charles Blake Cochran, 78, England's leading showman ("The British Barnum"); of injuries suffered in scalding bath water, which he was too crippled by arthritis to turn off; in London. Shrewd "C.B." started out selling a quack ointment in the U.S., wound up selling Britain's top stars (Noel Coward, Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence) to transatlantic theatergoers. Specializing in both beauty ("Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies") and beasts (he introduced rodeo to a somewhat startled England), he promoted anything he considered a good show ("I would rather see a good juggler than a bad Hamlet...
...voodoo. He attends the "baptism" of Lourdes's baby, which involves dousing it in a basin of rum and perfume and then passing it over flames. He allows his wife to be treated by a voodoo sorceress who whips her seven times and plunges her into a foul bath prepared from sea water, herbs and asafetida. But even Diogène himself feels it is too late. A few days later his eldest boy dies in a fever. His wife gone mad, Diogène himself is found dead on his boy's grave. Voodoo has done...