Word: bathtub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storm broke in Hobbies, a magazine devoted to the delights of private boondoggling. A recent issue included a report on a new sport-mouseboat racing -the invention of a ten-year-old anonymous moppet. Necessary paraphernalia: 18-inch racing boats, mice, a bathtub or pond. In racing, the mice propel the boats by walking a treadmill attached to a small paddle wheel. Said Hobbies: "No cruelty is imposed on the creature since experience shows that mice derive much enjoyment from their wheel-turning activity...
Zinc Trap. In Brooklyn, 280-pounder Bertha Singer found herself stuck in the bathtub, was wrenched by her son, tugged by a police emergency squad, lubricated with cooking oil, after 17 hours was pried...
Diehard. In Kansas City, John Davis tried unsuccessfully to end it all by 1) swallowing iodine; 2) taking merthiolate; 3) sticking his head into a gas stove; 4) shooting himself in the head; 5) drowning himself in the bathtub; was about to slit his throat when police arrived...
...crack, French-born Photographer Jean Manzon, Barreto Pinto had posed in shorts, mugged in the bathtub, pranced weirdly on the beach. When the pictures were printed in the weekly O Cruzeiro, they were a sensation; copies of the 15? magazine sold...
...failed. But lest he leave the state fishless, Gov. Edward J. Thye (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) planted a pike in a bathtub on the State House steps...