Word: bathtubful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bathtub Dreamer. "Bob" LeTourneau, who does not drink or smoke and flies some 200,000 miles a year in his private planes, spreading the Lord's word, combines his evangelism with hard-headed business sense. Born in Richford, Vt., he was still a boy when his family moved to the West Coast. He quit school after the seventh grade, made his first money selling pictures of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. He learned mechanics as a grease monkey in a garage, later set up his own earth-moving and contracting business at Stockton, Calif, on a loan...
Duress Occasion. In London. Robert McNally was able to get his marriage annulled after testifying that his beloved had grabbed his best shirt and soaked it in a bathtub until he promised to go through with the wedding...
Other independents fumbled around with their styling and interiors; technical improvements were either minor or non-existent. Kaiser for example changed hood ornaments and tacked a chrome-plated tire case on the rear. Studebaker dropped its needle-nose, and Nash swapped its bathtub body for one designd by Italy's Pinin Farina that couldn't help being an improvement...
...Marching Society. But he sends his boy & girl to Eastern schools to sap up "assurance." His kids baffle Jeff. Why did Tom become a commercial artist instead of coming into the business? Why does Tinker feel Gateway is dreary, her family "common"? Jeff yearns for the simple days of bathtub gin and Coolidge prosperity...
...maid who arrived in mid-morning to clean the San Francisco apartment of Mrs. Theresa Butler, 60, thought that her employer was dead: she was lying in a half-filled bathtub and could not be roused. The doctor who came at the call of the apartment manager also thought that Mrs. Butler was dead. He could find no pulse, his stethoscope revealed no heartbeat. A mirror held before her mouth and nostrils showed no breathing. The eyes seemed lifeless, and Mrs. Butler's body was cold. Though the doctor estimated that she had been dead for hours, rigor mortis...