Word: bathtubful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owned a big enough house; only by building a larger home was he able to make his daughter eligible for her sorority. Admitted a disillusioned sorority sister: "I've seen one girl blackballed because her feet were too big. Another was kept out because the bathtub in her parents' home still had legs...
Before Health-Hawker Hauser has half a million Americans ripping out their plumbing to install sitz tubs, or warp themselves like pretzels to sit side-straddle in a bathtub, let me point out that physiotherapists have long advocated sitz baths. And there's nothing unorthodox about soaking your fanny and your feet at the same time...
...forthcoming memoirs, "which will sweep away all these legends about me." Some of the sweepings: "The richest man in the world is the Nizam of Hyderabad, not me. He is also the most avid miser. He has a swimming pool full of diamonds . . . The story that I bottle my bathtub water and sell it to the faithful is utter rubbish . . . Horses are a passion with me. I have just had the best racing season of my life. In England alone...
From her perch on the edge of a bathtub, red-haired Denise Delfau swung her pretty legs and contentedly scribbled in a notebook. It was all quite jolly, except for the water that occasionally splashed on to her clothes when the naked, groaning creature in the tub thrashed in agony. And it kept Denise near her lover, a highly unrefined German named Friedrich Berger. For Friedrich, Denise performed the task of inscribing the confessions of French Resistance fighters who had fallen into the clutches of the Gestapo of Rue de la Pompe...
...blocks of colors that happen to interest him. When Piper finds a combination he likes, he uses it again & again. He continues to look for new combinations and new techniques. His spare time lately has been spent with wax-crayon colors and in floating paint on water in a bathtub, then lifting off the bright swirling patterns on to a piece of paper. He will have a Manhattan show next year, and is "fiddling around" between. themes. "I don't think I'll ever go back to abstractions, though," says Piper. "That has become too academic...