Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business; unfortunately, these charming bits of descriptive writing have of late been pushed off the front pages by articles on the latest boost in federal tax per gallon on all liquors. The thinking man has retired from all this balderdash and poppycock to splash about in an oversize bathtub of the good old home-mixed gin; and in so doing, he unconsciously indicates a way out for the nation...
...Imperial Palace at Tokyo the cypress bathtub was prepared. To disperse the evil spirits loud plangent sounds were made by a general and three viscounts twanging bowstrings. A screen was set up behind the tub and behind the screen knelt Dr. Ichimura and Dr. Mikami -savants equivalent in Japan to the President of Harvard and the President of Yale. Into the tub went the Empire's nameless, seven-day-old Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. 1). While he was washed, the voices of the savants reading from ancient books were louder than the bowstrings. Clean after his first bath...
...large proportion of his company's business, Captain Francis acted promptly, jettisoned all the offensive gewgaws-nearly 1,000. As they plopped into the ocean Mr. Untermyer sat down to his dinner content. Later he went to his cabin, slipped on the edge of his pink tiled bathtub, cut a deep gash over his left...
...therefore sympathize with the Freshman who called the woman at the Information Office In University Hall yesterday, and said "I live up here in Stoughton where we only have shower baths. I dearly want a real bath. Do you know where I might find a bathtub which I could...
...have never heard a person sing in the bathtub who was very musical, but I have heard many people who weren't. I don't want to discourage anyone, but while such singing may show good health, a warm heart, or a magnificent physique, it does not indicate a very subtle musical nature."--Edward Ballantine, professor of Music...