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Word: bathtub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...rather stupid extremists could be found now and then, extremism of an asinine variety is not peculiar to the Jitterbug world. He adds the rather telling point that Jitterbugging to the stimulus of a couple of cokes is much better than doing the Charleston--badly--to the tune of bathtub...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 2/23/1940 | See Source »

...lovely couple, the Norths, who plot mild whoopee in a vacant apartment upstairs in Greenwich Village, find a corpse in the bathtub, but have their party anyway. Mrs. North and Lieutenant Weigand together spot the guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in January | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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