Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Marat's bathroom in 1793, he was in his high, churnlike tub and she stabbed him to the heart. When Siamese soldiers and sailors stormed last week into King Prajadhipok's Bangkok bathroom (see p. 18), made by Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., the big U. S. bathtub was empty...
Birth Control Shelved, To the satisfaction of every opponent of Birth Control, notably Episcopal Gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins, who keeps snakes in his bathtub and graces every meal with a verse from his ponderous Bible?Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee was in an exasperating fix last week. After several years' effort Mrs. Sanger had persuaded the Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives and the Judiciary subcommittee of the Senate to consider duplicate bills which would permit physicians, hospitals & clinics complete freedom to learn about contraceptives. Fortnight ago the House committee ?at the insistence...
...Chicago, Mrs. Adele Jackson, 72, filled her bathtub with kerosene, jumpd in, struck a match, burned to death...
Edward Ballantine '01, professor of Music, when asked to account for such phenomena declared that such efforts usually come from "people who have no other form of musical expression or those having little talent." "I have never heard a person sing in the bathtub who was very musical." Professor Ballantine declared, "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 war heart, or a magnificent physique, it does not indicate a very subtle musical nature. It is, on the contrary, evidence of rather deficient...
...best available computations, less than 50% of all U. S. homes measure up to the minimum standards of health and decency set by the National Housing Association. These standards include sunlight, proper ventilation, dry walls, garbage removal, adequate fire protection, a water closet, running water inside the house. A bathtub, central light, heat, and a telephone are not considered necessary...