Word: bathtubful
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...attitude of a Leverett House goodie has the wistful tone we like best. In commenting upon the horror of it all to one of her "patients," she said, "You never know what's coming next these days. When I think of it I'm scared to get into my bathtub...
...many years at his country home at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. Funnyman Joe Cook has been assembling at great expense safety pins, collar buttons, unset stones, Japanese netsukes, miniature bibles, bathtub faucets, tin soldiers, perfume bottles, ball bearings, for his celebrated collection of objects ''no larger than a man's hand." An object which qualified for the Cook collection appeared in New York's art mart last week, a 16th Century portrait four and one-half inches in diameter. Comedian Cook is an unlikely purchaser, however, for the picture is the only authenticated self-portrait...
...sentiment scattered sweetly here and there throughout the length of a serious movie, a kind of salve to smooth the rough edges of the plot; but literally to take a bath in the ointment is neither pleasant nor logical. And such was "To Mary With Love." It was a bathtub of sentiment, and it was neither pleasant nor logical...
...Quoddy Village, so that Maine men could not say, as they did three years ago, that he had failed to visit them when only a mile away. He saw the neat, clean, $1,500,000 'Quoddy Village erected for the dam builders, was engrossed by the bathtub model of the power project with its four-inch tides demonstrating how power will be made if the President has his way with Congress...
Majesty, the royal and imperial grandmother asked amiably: "Whom have I the honor of receiving?" Announced Lilybet: "Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug!" This caused not a flicker upon the countenance of Her Majesty, but after the game was over she asked, "How did you happen to think of such queer names?" "Oh, we didn't think of them," explained Lilybet. "While we were dressing up to play, Uncle David came in. We told him we needed some new names and he suggested 'Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug...