Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Personal liberties? . . . Lord bless you, you can't even sing in the bathtub in an apartment house without running the risk of a jail sentence. There is not much in our lives but what is bound...
...same time raise their hair with tales of gangster grue ran through 100 pages of Prison Life Stories. Director Sanford Bates of the U. S. Bureau of Prisons contributed an earnest description of "Our Island Fortress, Alcatraz." Two pages later came a lurid account of "Ohio's 'Bathtub Crime,' " complete with a provocative sketch of a murdered woman in the nude. Cheek by jowl with a learned discussion of "Scientific Crime Detection" from Assistant Superintendent H. J. Martin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was the life story of Los Angeles' Thomas M. White, the "Rattlesnake...
...Chicago, to prove her divorce contention that her husband was an habitual drunkard, Mrs. Madeline McCarthy produced in court a photograph of Mr. McCarthy snoring in a bathtub. "Unfair," said Mr. McCarthy...
...Atlantic City policemen," came his latest ukase, "are not putting on a burlesque show. The designing will be done by conventional uniform tailors and not by theatrical producers, Paris designers, or bathtub decorators...
...with Sir Hudson, hid himself in the house, the Governor ordered a luckless officer to report daily on his prisoner's presence. For weeks the officer and Napoleon played hide-&-seek. After fruitless days of snooping, the desperate man broke into Longwood one day, caught Napoleon in the bathtub, was pursued down passageways with royal imprecations. When Napoleon, for something to do, had a sunken garden built, the excavations to Sir Hudson's fevered mind, looked like earthworks...