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Word: bathtubful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milk & Jam. "I didn't become a good Christian overnight," Pat advises. "In fact, I got my last spanking when I was 17." It was administered by strong-willed Mama Boone with her ever-ready sewing-machine belt, "both of us leaning over the bathtub." For this walloping and many before, Pat is grateful: "We all thought Mama the greatest, and I tell her now that she can spank me any time she likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Teen Commandments | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...that permits the moviegoer to lick his lips over the horror just before he sees the humor of a situation-or vice versa. One moment, for example, the audience is snickering at a dumb chorine, and the next it is staring aghast at her lifeless body in a bathtub that seems at first glance to be full of raspberry soda-very picturesque in Metro-color. And during a mob war, when a punk catches a packet, does he do the conventional clutch-and-crumple? Not at all. He explodes in the moviegoer's face like a ripe tomato-quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...enthusiastically switched sides and saved many an innocent from the guillotine. Long accustomed by then to swaying men, she hoped to make a good democrat out of Napoleon, but he snubbed her. Among other things, he resented her trying to interview him when he was "naked in his bathtub" and positively bridled when she protested: "Genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Circe | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...editorial by Mr. Robinson. But he indicated in an interview yesterday that he didn't plan to have a bug about such philosophical matters as did, for instance, the editors of i.e., The Cambridge Review. I read the editorial on identity backwards and forwards and in the bathtub, and could find no real clue to the riddle of identity. Mr. Robinson comes out on the side of simplicity, I think, and that is praiseworthy. "...Simplicity," he says, "may be an intentional affirmation that the core of life is not a complex of enigmas but an aggregation of simple truths...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: Identity | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

...murder with insulin. It cannot be traced." Last year Barlow, 38. had his chance. His second wife. Elizabeth, was pregnant, and neither wanted the baby. He started to give her injections of ergometrine to induce an abortion. On a May night. Elizabeth Barlow, 30, was found drowned in the bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Imperfect Crime | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

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