Word: bathtubful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kind. In Sidcup, England, Mrs. Annie Skinner willed to Norman Butler, who had done her plumbing free, her bathtub, sink and water heater...
...Plumbers (meeting in San Francisco) for being the alltime heroes of U.S. plumbers: Movie Director Cecil B. DeMille (for "selling the plumbing idea throughout the world by his favorite device of divesting some gorgeous creature-female-and filming her in a gold-plated or sunken or even fur-lined bathtub"), and Benjamin Franklin (for bringing back a copper, shoe-shaped bathtub from France...
...skit and song, entitled "When We Ride, We Always Ride with Harry." Then Ross and the three other Gridironers aboard the presidential train made a record of the skit. On the third stanza of the song ("When I laugh, I always laugh with Harry . . ."), Harry Truman himself added his bathtub baritone. He also sent his greetings to the Gridironers...
...magic world of the '20s than in the sheltered "order and perfection" of his father's court. With good grace the Prince performed the required round of royal ceremonials, but he had more fun flying in his own plane, riding in steeplechases, and cultivating a taste for bathtub gin, American slang and the Black Bottom. Young David, as he was and still is called by his intimates, further distressed George V (whose letters to the Prince were signed "yr. devoted Papa") by his determination "under no circumstances to contract a loveless marriage...
Since the University could not provide me with housing, I pay $80 a month to live in a highly inadequate two-room apartment. It is dirty, furnished with cheap pieces in poor taste, and offers me little privacy. Although I have a lavatory to myself, I must share the bathtub with ten other people. The place is too small to permit any entertaining, and so little resistant to sound that any noise can be heard throughout the building. Every time I step into my kitchen or go into the hall I hear the intimate sounds of my neighbor's lives...