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...historicity of bathing in politics, erudite Dr. Cross reported: "I . . . found that there ~was never-a bathtub in the White House until under the Administration of Fillmore [1850-53], who was first a Whig or 'Know Nothing,' and later deteriorated into a Republican...
...Fillmore asked the Senate for a special appropriation for a bathtub, and specialists told him it would be dangerous to bathe between Oct. 1 and June 1. But he finally got the appropriation. But what about the Presidents in pre-bathing days? Was Fillmore greater than Thomas Jefferson...
...Fernando, Calif., Theodore G. Sherwood, 86, Civil War veteran, was sentenced to jail for two days because he refused to buy a license to have a bathtub in his home...
...meemies....what do I seem to have on?....well this certainly adds the formal touch....white ties for breakfast....Beaunash please copy....why did we do it?....there really ought to be a law....oh, my head....who's this on the floor?....and who's this in the bathtub? and in the fireplace?....the day after Gettysburg....who got in a fight?....he did?....well he was stewed....I know because I saw him....serves him right....oh, so he went to jail too?....for driving a taxi around the Yard at six this morning?....with the cornet player...
...three bullets fired into Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond while his chorus girl splashed in their Manhattan bathtub (TIME, Oct. 20) received far more space in British dailies and weekly reviews than all four of President Herbert Hoover's recent speeches combined. "After all," cried the Manchester Guardian, No. 1 Liberal daily, "the most important thing of all is to be civilized. . . . The fate of a Jack Diamond is without significance in itself but the social attitude toward him is significant of much. . . . Here is a perfect illustration of the fallacy that a nation or city is civilized because...