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Word: bathtub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mail loaded with paperweights after the newspapers ran a story last month saying that he collected the things as a hobby. Among the whatnots he was sent by well-wishers: a weighted mahogany gavel, a glass basin filled with coins, a porcelain pig, a bronze nude in a bronze bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...went with him on a cross-country honeymoon tour. Seamans describes the trip through a Nebraska rainstorm: "The windshield was down, the top blew off, and it was like riding in a bathtub. The highest point in the car was the steering wheel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Lowell's Buick Phaeton Has Its Third Undergraduate Owner | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

Senator Kenneth McKellar, 80, painfully burned by hot water when he took a tumble in the bathtub, refused to be photographed wearing pajamas in a Memphis hospital. He got out of bed, dressed, went back to bed fully clothed and then told the cameramen to shoot away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...roaring Twenties, Princeton Charlies were quite famous for their Stuz Bearcats as well as their Raccoon Coats and hip flasks. The combination of bathtub gin and a Vassar girl was frequently rather deadly, however, and many Princetonians ended their weekends in the obituary columns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cars Banned for Most Nassau Men | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...spent a log of time in may bathtub after that and I knew that if he ever swam the English Channel, it would have to be with a woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Channel Duck Soup For University Hall's Turtle | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

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