Word: bathtub
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Furse need have no fear of his bathtub scenes being flashed on New York screens, unless he wishes to install a television sending apparatus in his bathroom and engage expert operators; unless he deliberately commands that the bathing scene be transmitted through the ether. Incidently, at present stage of development, the apparatus takes up more room than a piano, costs more thar 20 pianos...
...Josephine Bonaparte was one of the first sponsors of swan fixtures. At Malmaison, she had such fixtures on her bathtub...
England to Australia. Dennis Rooke, onetime member of the British Royal Flying Corps, clad in a grey lounge suit and civilian overcoat climbed in his Moth de Havilland plane last week; set out for Australia, 11,000 miles away. He took along a collapsible bathtub, a few spare parts and maps. He in-tended to make short, leisurely hops. The flight was stimulated by a $10,000 bet, which was later canceled...
...cried my little roommate leaping to his feet, the vigorous fellow, "Whee, whee." At which sudden debacle I ran to Aunt Emma's sole contribution to our happy home and brought him the smelling salts. It was in vain. He persisted; insisted; resisted. So lowering him gently into the bathtub I discovered his secret...
...Awaited a Department of Justice report before taking action on petitions for executive clemency for Earl Carroll, Manhattan theatrical producer, convicted of perjury in connection with a now famed bathtub incident...