Word: bathtub
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chewing ' gum, candies, ham, peanut butter, etc.) - decided the U. S. Supreme Court last week. Said Mr. Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "The Lorillard Co. is at least as well known to those who do not despise tobacco as the Beech-Nut Co. is to its refined customers." Bathtub Trust. Eight members of the so-called Bathtub Trust last week paid the U. S. Government fines totaling $169,000; had their suspended sentences of six and ten months changed to probation. The U. S. Supreme Court, by vote of 5 to 3 (Justice Brandeis not voting) had found them...
...bring Earl,'" says the laundress. A Princeton co-ed sisbooms "ad Nassaum." Yale sings "Beulah, Beulah." Funnyman Donald Ogden Stewart's technique is borrowed for an interview with Golfer Bobby Jones, aged one, in a lavatory. Pleased with himself, Mr. Lardner then interviews Horace Greeley in a bathtub. Toward the end of the book a Laplander lands in his lap. They marry and live in Gluten, N. Y. Divorce ensues. Queen Marie sings "Dat watahmelyon hangin' on de vine." He marries a Swiss called Geezle. He reforms the theatre by undressing the audience. In the last chapter...
Director General of Internal Revenue Alfredo Rioseco came home from his office at Santiago one night last week, ascended to his bedroom, took off his clothes, climbed into his bathtub, began to soak. . . . Beside the tub he had prudently laid out an automatic pistol-for times are strenuous in Chile (see below). Soon Señor Rioseco stood up and lathered himself. At that moment a soldier's gun butt crashed against the door. . . . Tough, the door held. The soldiers demanded of Señor Rioseco that he come out and submit to arrest. They shouted that...
...Kitchen, Bedroom and Bath" is a drawing of the famed three, located in Greenwich Village supposedly, in which the trio coincide. All are one room, and a small one. An inhabitant of the household disports in the portable bathtub while his mate fries a fish over...
...neighboring town in Indiana for crepe de chine. She brought back a husband, as girls will. The trouble starts when the new bridegroom dreams fish farms when he should be thinking sawmill. However, it ends without a pang. Earl Carroll, known over the country for his daring revues, "bathtub" scandal, is producing the play. For him it is in the nature of a bitter gesture. He said, in as many words, that, since the public was so insistent upon cleanliness and purity in the theatre, he would give them a chance to support a clean, wholesome, pure, enjoyable play...