Word: bathtub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador Steinhardt would have liked to see Moatsie get out of Russia. But Moatsie's "cold grey" eyes showed her determination to "fight to the last ditch." She had come a long, tough way. At Tokyo's Imperial Hotel the roughness of the bathtub had left, she said ruefully, a "waffle design" on her posterior. Later, she had caught influenza. Her lipstick had run out. She was without holeless silk stockings. But when Steinhardt told her she had been "spoiled rotten by [her] parents" she replied "with gibes even more cutting...
...sleeping quarters were the rear end of one of the trucks fitted out with a desk, two chairs, couch, wash basin, toilet and shower. Along the route he added a porcelain bathtub. Over his bed he pinned a picture of his enemy, Rommel...
...maintain that the boys here still like their scotch and soda, as they have since the days of bathtub-gin," Snowball insisted. "They may be buying more beer, but they still consume their scotch...
They seem to have forgotten, however, the baleful effects of their last great triumph. Most sociologists agree that the origin of the vexing "youth problem" of the 1920's was inextricably linked with Prohibition. Sporting flasks and muttering recipes for bathtub gin, American youth of the 20's indulged in more drinking than any generation before or since. Drunken youths were a common sight on the stairs of every entry in Harvard halls. The nation's youth is not only more temperate now than during Prohibition, but the Army has done an excellent job of keeping order in camp...
Small World, California Division. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Elsie Joseph jumped out of the bathtub as a fish jumped out of the faucet. The fish died of hot water...