Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flying High (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Bert Lahr performing the role he made famous when the show was a Manhattan musicomedy. He is a bedazzled aviator who spends a night in a bathtub, then breaks the altitude record because he lacks sense enough to come down. Two of Flying High's best songs ("Thank Your Father," "Wasn't It Beautiful While It Lasted") have been whistled so much that they had to be left out, but in other respects the cinema improves the play...
...James A, Naismith, 69, director of physical education at University of Kansas since 1898, originator of the game of basketball 40 years ago, slipped & fell in the bathtub in his Lawrence, Kan. home and broke two ribs. He was a teacher in the Y. M. C. A. College at Springfield, Mass. when he originated basketball, first played by teams of seven players with a soccer football and ordinary conical peachbaskets. The idea of the game spread faster than the rules, and each section of the U. S. played its own brand until the game was standardized...
...George Beatty landed a Model B Wright on this same field at least two years before I did, and the late Blair Thaw turned the trick along about 1915 with a private plane built for him by Harold Kantner. It would appear from TIME'S paragraph that the Bathtub Earl did not join the Central Park Flying Squirrels until 1917, which would put him a long way from charter membership. I suggest that the archives of the Carroll Press Department be altered accordingly. GUY GILPATRIC Cros de Cagnes, A.M., France...
...wish it were a half course; but if you throw together a good thesis and make out a fat bunch of reading cards you'll get a good grade. Anyhow, you can't just ignore Babbitt: either you've got to throw the baby out with the bathtub, or get away with him and be cleansed of all Romanticism, or, if you're really wise, you'll wash away his prejudices and persiflage and get to the main body underneath...
...disease would be fatal he deeded to Humbert a $95,000 estate. He recovered, planned to take Humbert to England to claim the property. Last week Humbert was found in the cottage on Lovers' Lane with his skull crushed in. Next day police found Chapman dead in a bathtub in a Boston hotel. Beside him were six empty veronal bottles. In his hand was a photograph of Humbert. On it was written: "My pal, Teddy. Killed in a fatal accident...