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...Such thoughts are my constant companion and I feel sure that I am like wives and mothers all over the nation. Why is it, we wonder, that we are allowed to continue to go about the homely tasks: cooking the cereal, wiping the baby's nose, cleaning the bathtub, when our sisters in other places have lost their homes, very possibly their babies, and have no cereal to cook? By what peculiar virtue of our own is it that our men can come home at night to their comforts, to their hobbies, pipes and newspapers when their brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...Zephyr V-12," whereas an "artist" is a "pure spirit who munches crusts in a garret." Say they: "They're often one and the same person." The show's 40 items were the work of artists whose main problem is to entice consumers with dream women, seductive bathtub scenes, irresistible automobiles, travel-teasing landscapes, nostalgic farm scenes, etc. (for which their fees range from $300 to $3,000 per illustration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sideline Art | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

Davis went in. In the hallway, on a mattress, lay the naked body of his wife, Lolita, in a welter of blood. Beside her was a broken hammer. In the bathtub lay the body of Deborah Ann, 7; in the kitchen were the bodies of Daphne and Marquis. In the oven were two burned pieces of toast. Only survivor of whatever had happened was Chloe, who, neat in a clean dress, her flaxen hair in pigtails, gazed at him with appraising eyes as he stumbled out of the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Horror Story | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Rodgers and Hart musical, "Higher and Higher" was back in her pool in the Shubert Theatre last night with a long story of early morning adventures to tell her co-star. It was Jesse F. Cleveland '43 who found the 300-pound seal diving from his washbasin into the bathtub of his Claverly Hall room yesterday morning and called the Cambridge Police and the S. P. C. A. to take the errant home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coppers Uncover Kidnaped Actress In Dorm Bathtub | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Having arrived in Cambridge, she stalwartly refused to live in the Winthrop House shower of W. Russell Bowie '41, or in the Lampoon Building. It was only when introduced to the bathtub in Lampoon candidate Cleveland's room that she made herself at home and waited for rescue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coppers Uncover Kidnaped Actress In Dorm Bathtub | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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