Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, thieves entered the home of J. G. Haber, sausage manufacturer. They found Mr. Haber snoozing by the radio, Mrs. Flossy Haber singing in the bathtub. Opening the bathroom door, they tossed Mrs. Haber a wrap, made her get them her jewel box, contents valued...
...night the singer met a novelist, pink-cheeked Carl Van Vechten. He now calls him "the Abraham Lincoln of Negro Art." He met and admired others: Muriel Draper partygoing in a window curtain; Colyumist Heywood Broun lying shirt-sleeved beside his bathtub of cocktails, to receive intelligentsia; Lady Oxford asking Gordon to Black Bottom after singing for royalty. He sang all over the U. S., heard deafening and perplexing applause. Now 36, he muses: "Ho! Ho! ... I wonder what I was born...
...Youth Wife-slayer sleeps quietly"..."Bachelor Heir dies in bathtub"..."Smith girls are sorry for Elis"...Tipsy rooster leads the way to boss's still...
Cliff Perry (Fox) went home to wash up after shooting a jailbreak in Miami. He was electrocuted by the heater in his bathtub...
John Ringling, circusman, purchased last week for $400 the bathtub in which French Revolutionist Jean Paul Marat was lolling when Charlotte Corday assassinated him. Other famed bathtubs, unpriced, are linked with Diogenes, Earl Carroll...