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...years ago. A florid midwife bedecked with velvet and plumes, Mme. Restell amassed a fortune from abortions. She used to kiss her young clients good-by with the words: "Go, and sin no more." In 1878 she was finally hunted down by Reformer Anthony Comstock, committed suicide in her bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sin No More! | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...Second Army's men made camp in afternoon showers, and by night without lights-in creek valleys, on hills, in woods. They slept on the ground, ate good food from spotless mess kits, with gusto. Every creek was a bathtub where bronzed soldiers bathed, a washtub where they laundered clothes and hung them on tree limbs to dry. In bivouac and on long halts, barbers broke out clippers and shears, went to work on soldiers' close-cropped polls. If condition, cleanliness and a kind of jeering morale were the only measures of good outfits, the Second Army needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Test in the Field | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...Reads in Bathtub...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: K.T. STEVENS HAD "SWELL TIME" WITH HARVARDMAN | 6/19/1941 | See Source »

...observant cinematic will remember K.T., in "Kitty Foyle," as one of Ginger Rogers' roommates who were forced to camp in the bathroom of their one-room apartment while Ginger played double solitaire with James Craig in the living room. K.T. was the girl ensconced in the bathtub with a book. She enjoyed being directed by her father in the picture and wishes she could do so again. "We understand one another perfectly," she says. She will also appear in "Great Man's Lady" soon to be released...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: K.T. STEVENS HAD "SWELL TIME" WITH HARVARDMAN | 6/19/1941 | See Source »

...must have been keenly aware of that fact one morning last week when he stretched a tentative toe into his green-tinted bathtub, while he gazed at his face with its little mustache and flopping hair, as he covered his chin with lather (at the Berghof the great dictator is his own barber), while he sipped his Chinese tea, spooned his porridge and chewed his morning toast covered with a mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: A Dictator's Hour | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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