Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense based its case on a single vital point: that Mrs. Lamson's death could have been caused by an accidental fall. Two doctors, one of whom was Blake Wilbur, testified that the wounds on her head might have resulted from a blow against the bathtub rim and faucets. Since the evidence against Lamson was purely circumstantial this point loomed important as the basis for "reasonable doubt." Desperately the prosecution sought to combat it. It called Dr. Arthur William Meyer, head of the Stanford anatomy department, who testified that Mrs. Lamson's scalp indicated that she had been...
...worth seeing. Gary Grant gives a sound performance as Jerry Young's bloodthirsty gunner. Jack Oakie's customary comedy role-of a young man overcome by breezy concupiscence-fits in well. Good shot: March, off for London on furlough, taking leave of Oakie, lounging in a bathtub on the lawn outside his quarters...
...recent CRIMSON interview. "Course, you can't expect them all to be good, but then, some of them are pretty poor pickin's. I guess you young folks nowadays call 'emlousy, that's a misuse of the word, but some of them do leave a little ring on the bathtub...
...fortunately O'Neill was in the bathtub when the angel of light came around looking for a playwright to write "The Sacred Flame," so the modest angel alighted gracefully on the somewhat rounded shoulders of Somerset Maugham, and whispered in his ample ear her idea for a great tragedy...
Died. Sara Teasdale Filsinger, 48, U. S. poetess of nostalgia, Pulitzer prize-winner (1918); by drowning in her bathtub, following pneumonia, a nervous breakdown, a debate with her nurse on suicide technique; in Manhattan. Divorced in 1929 from Ernst B. Filsinger, foreign trade expert, onetime vice president of Royal Baking Powder Co., her prize-winning Love Songs included the stanza...