Word: bathtubful
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...sanitary age. The symbol of it is the water closet, the bathtub and the two-washbasin bathroom. If we don't watch out, they will have them on the mantelpiece of the future, exhibited in the parlor the way that pots and old kitchen utensils of the past...
Like toy boats in a bathtub, bright bits of Dwight Eisenhower's program are spinning crazily around in Congress, while others lie becalmed in the slack water of indifference. Mindful that Senators and House members are already yearning for a July 31 adjournment, the President observed last week that "the time is late" for action. And he gave serious thought to both short-and long-term cures for obstinacy and inaction on Capitol Hill...
...spirit and . . . the physical resources to establish America as an important figure in the racing world. It could have been done in no other way. Detroit, having spent 20 years meeting the public's demand for soggy sponge springing, mush-o-matic drive and steering, and cumbersome chrome bathtub exteriors, is disinclined to risk the reputations of its unwieldy boulevard barges in competition (cheers to Lincoln and similar exceptions...
Died. William S. ("Pete") Newell, 75, shipbuilder and board chairman of the Bath (Me.) Iron Works Corp.; of a heart ailment; in Bath. During the shipbuilding slump of the '20s, Newell saved Bath's yards by rounding up fresh capital, later revolutionized the industry with the "sunken bathtub" method i.e., constructing ships in basins resembling drydocks from which they float out on completion...
...wife Mireille to Nantes, their object is murder and their motive is 2,000,000 francs of insurance money. As a killer, Ravinel proves tender and compassionate. After Mireille drinks a carefully prepared potion, her eyes close and Ravinel tearfully helps to lower her inert body into a bathtub full of water. "Don't worry, Mireille," he says. "You won't feel anything ... I swear I never wanted to do you any harm...