Word: bathtubfuls
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...Twenties. That was the day when Freshmen were men and every proctor carried a sub-machine gun. The U. T., as a precautionary measure, employed a bouncer who was pitcher on the Varsity baseball team and tipped the scales at 220. He was assigned to "take care" of the bathtub-gin addicts and his life was a busy...
...Bathtub gin, riots, and actresses may come and go, but the University Theatre carries on its crusade against the vices of college and day by day converts to the sweeter, the pleasanter, the movie-going Way of Life...
Resonance. Don't be ashamed of singing in the bathtub, advises Dr. Freeman, but "place your head directly above a wash bowl and hum loudly, starting with a low note and gradually raising the pitch [until you] find the bowl strongly reinforcing your voice tone. . . . An entire room, especially a small one, can some times be made to resonate in this way." Theory: different substances have different periods of natural vibration; when the voice finds them, they vibrate in sympathy. Men make better bathroom thrushes than women because modern plumbing is out of phase with higher-pitched voices...
...dummies and drapes. Dali's surrealist windows were a big success. But shocked customers finally demanded that his hair-raising semi-nude manikins be further draped. Infuriated by unscheduled changes in his windows, spindly-framed Dali broke into one of them, hurled himself and a fur-lined bathtub through the plate glass, almost decapitated himself. Bonwit Teller did not try the experiment again...
Last week, in a dimly lit room in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, a crowd of robust young women gathered around a bubbling sitz bath, hidebound corsets, steel braces. Some bent over a baby kicking mightily in a whirlpool bathtub (Currence Underwater Therapy Tank). The place looked like a medieval torture chamber, but the young women meant no harm: they were only members of the American Physiotherapy Association, holding their 19th annual convention...