Word: bathtubful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first act, though awkwardly staged around an automobile resembling a behemoth bathtub, was saved by the amusing inefficiency of the duffer Parpalaid (played by Sobert Dargie) and the witty, if sometimes forced, interpretation of his hayseed wife played by Priscilla Foley...
Reconnaissance Patrol. In London Returned Traveler Richard Jones, in a letter to a newspaper, informed Britons planning trips to Russia that bathtub plugs are "virtually nonexistent," advised them to take along their...
...young Queen planted a tree, pushed buttons, laid a wreath, accepted gifts, saw sights, made pretty speeches, was dined and wined, received curtsies from some 3,400 ladies of France. In more private moments, she slept in Napoleon's bed, bathed in Empress Eugénie's bathtub, sat in an armchair used by Louis XV, and (according to the calculations of Frenchmen experienced in such calculations) found time to spend just 1½ hours out of the three-day visit alone with her husband...
...Director Vincente Minnelli has turned out half a dozen of the pleasantest comedies and musical comedies (An American in Paris, Father of the Bride) made in Hollywood since the '30s. And in Designing Woman, restricted still further by a plot that should have gone down the drain with bathtub gin, Director Minnelli has produced an uncommonly slick, prosperity-padded sequel to the emancipated-woman comedies of Depression times...
Died. Belle Livingstone, ninetyish, exuberant, high-living hostess who gave a gold-faucet elegance to the era of bathtub gin as the manager of a string of high-bracket ($5 a drink for "Jersey champagne"-grape juice and ethyl alcohol) Manhattan speakeasies; in New York City. Belle maintained (in Belle of Bohemia, a wildly inventive autobiography) that she was discovered under a sunflower in Emporia, Kans. by her foster parents, married four times and spent money faster than she could inherit or divorce it. She called her saloons "salons," outfitted them with overstuffed divans because she felt too many heads...