Word: bathtubful
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...Marquis Childs, Roger Butterfield, Raymond Swing and many others had forwarded autographed pictures for the walls; Author Stuart Cloete had simply sent along a tear-sheet of a whiskey advertisement which showed him as a "Man of Distinction." The staff decided-to leave the red rose designs on the bathtub and the other old-fashioned fixtures just as they were. A sign on the hall door indicated that this was, or had been, the home...
...laid out a jigsaw puzzle of pierced roofs, gardens, lawns, curving walls and pools. The circular swimming pool, hollowed out around the edge, has columns under water as well as above, enclosing a glassed-in submarine gaxden. Said Wright: "The average swimming pool looks to me like a glorified bathtub...
F.Y.I. carries no paid advertisements, but the response to its Public Notices column would floor even the most over-confident advertising man. There you can find your choice of a "brand-new bathtub for $45"; a "120 Bass M. Hohner accordion with a double octave bar"; "two pairs of 9 short nylons for 9½ mediums"; "four well-bred grey-striped kittens"; a part-time maid, or a fervent plea for a hard-to-get copy of Tubbs Analytics...
Almost as amoral as zoo exhibits, they struggle feebly against temptation, maunder miserably into a plot to murder the man who stands in their way. They attempt their clumsy bathtub murder, bring off an equally clumsy auto murder, face sure conviction, and are rescued in one of the most reptilian bits of legal chicanery that ever made fiction look almost as strange as truth. They are hounded by blackmailers; they are tortured still more severely by their inability to trust each other; they come at last to a surprise ending which, in the novel, had much the force...
...grey curtains could not be pulled together; anyone passing could peer through. Betty's bed linen was changed every five weeks - on request. The janitor slept on a mattress, 25 feet away, and had a habit of washing rugs in the bathtub...