Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Train takes his best pokes at screwball laws. Samples: a Los Angeles ordinance forbidding "more than one person bathing in or occupying a bathtub at the same time"; a statute stating that "when two trains approach each other at a crossing, both shall stop and neither shall start until the other has gone...
...richest men in the world, a man who by floating loans could keep whole countries from sinking, whose death and its subsequences may cause a political crisis in France. This financial emperor was a fat-lipped, mean, noxious, cigar-smoking German Jew, one of whose mistresses had a gold bathtub and who, after 20 years in The Netherlands, could not speak enough Dutch to boss his own chauffeur. His name was Dr. Fritz Mannheimer...
...Smith, but Dr. Smith refused to be sprung. If he got out of jail in Baton Rouge he would be clapped into jail in New Orleans, where he was wanted for forgery, and Baton Rouge offered him several inducements to stay. He was given a cell with a private bathtub and an electric fan, and when he complained that the setting sun got into his eyes he was moved to a cell with a better exposure...
...rooms formerly occupied by Dolezal, Pat Lyons found crumbs of human blood between the floor boards, behind the bathtub. Arrested, Dolezal withstood 40 hours of questioning before he blurted...
...MacFarquhar, suing for divorce, submitted her diary in evidence. Excerpts: "January 28-Blackened my eye because I bought a fifteen-cent cake and did not turn over the change; March 13-He tripped me and tried to kick me through a window; March 26-He knocked me into the bathtub; June 12-He chased me with a hammer. . . ." Plaintiff MacFarquhar got the divorce...