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...fainted. Do us a favor and take his vocal chorus." So Bing said, "Sure." It was as if he made the record because he happened to be the only one around. He just sang the tune, in other words, the way you would while washing your feet in the bathtub...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 4/12/1941 | See Source »

...strong a challenge as the Big Green, and at this writing it appears that Coach Ulen has too many cards up his sleeve for either opponent. Princeton will be a different proposition, however, especially because the meet will be held in antiquated Brokaw pool, more like an old-fashioned bathtub than any-thing else...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 2/5/1941 | See Source »

Rumanians heard how ex-King Carol had behaved when the eleven-car special train on which he fled ran a gantlet of pro-Nazi Iron Guardist gunfire at Timisoara railroad station. Carol had jumped into a bathtub while bullets smashed windows (see cut), killed an engineer, wounded the station master. At the same time, Carol's former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu had flung his foppish self under a table. Beyond the frontier Carol gave the train crew $2 apiece. One man refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Quakes and Carol | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...bootleg liquor and bathtub gin made their first appearance. The Crimson emerged from that game with the "foot" in football very evident. Charlie Buell kicked two field goals, Arnold Horween one, for the game's only scores. The next two years saw almost identical games. Yale entered the favorite, emerged beaten 10 to 3, with Charlie Buell and George Owen doing yoeman service for the winners on both occasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY YEARS OF HARVARD-YALE WARFARE ON DISPLAY | 11/23/1940 | See Source »

...Tonopah, Nev., Mrs. Emery Garrett found a coyote prowling among her turkeys, yelled "Shoo!" It did - through a window of her house into the bathtub, where Mrs. Garrett's nephew, Harry Lewis, shot the baffled creature dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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