Word: bathtub
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eager, never did get a man and made her exit as a faded Ophelia in the copper-lined bathtub. Tireless, generous Maggie at last gave birth-to a mortal cancer. Victor fended off decrepitude with cold plunges and Lily's listless adulation, but the Wilmington debutantes thought him more and more an old foolish, with his hoary jokes and palsied, piddling gallantry...
...home-made and equipped with motorcycle engines, showed what can be done in the air at a low cost. J. M. Johnson of Dayton won, going 64.10 m.p.h. in a little yellow bug with a single, underslung wing on each side. Etienne Dormoy of Dayton flew his cherished "flying bathtub" 50.01 m.p.h. for second prize. H. C. Mummert of Garden City won another low-powered event with his 18-horse Harley-Davidson special...
...Tree a More Bathtub...
...Story. Amy May was six years old. She lived on the top floor of No. 12 Barrow St. with her mother, Mrs. Holly, a one-eyed doll named Annabelle Lee and an agreeable young rabbit called Jane Demonstration. The mother was kind (her disposition was amiable and her bathtub had geraniums in it). But in spite of these blessings and the consolations of Christian Science as well, Amy May's happiness was incomplete, for she felt that Annabelle Lee should have a husband and she didn't know where to get him. Fortunately, Papa Jonas, who lived downstairs...
Captain Wedgwood Benn, D. S. 0., Liberal M. P. for Leith, delivered an impassionate plea for housing laws that will require all apartments and rented houses to be fitted with baths. He stoutly denied that the bathtub is a luxury...