Word: bathtubful
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...fine Iowa morning last week a country doctor saw a strange thing in the sky. It looked like two clusters of white grapes, floating along with the wind, with something resembling a bathtub, a coffin or a sweatbox dangling below. The doctor was on a confinement case so he did not stop to gawp...
...years ago, returning on the lie de-France, Miss Elizabeth Ann Ahearn, 68, a devout school principal of Danvers, Mass. who had been six times received by the Pope, died of a stroke while in her bathtub. She had been sleeping daily until noon because of poor health and her death was not discovered for some 14 hours. Ship's doctors found it inadvisable to embalm the body and the captain called upon Catholic priests aboard to officiate at a sea burial. Subsequently four cousins sued the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) for $100,000 for their mental anguish...
...Cleveland, the estate of Henry C. Wakeman, Detroit lingerie salesman who was fatally injured when he slipped on a cake of soap in a Cleveland hotel bathtub, lost a suit to collect industrial compensation for his death when Judge George P. Baer ruled that a traveling salesman's work does not include taking a bath...
...film pass, during which time the Doctor catalogues the position and character (Announcer: "Observe, please, that each quintuplet has a different personality." This is said triumphantly.) of all but the nurses. By some miracle the last scene arrives--a return to the bathroom scene, but this time only the bathtub can be seen. Four supple bodies are being launched by the nurses into the water...
Announcer: "It is an amazing thing that last year all the quintuplets could get into one bathtub; now, alas, the fifth must wait for the others. If only Mrs. Dionne...