Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Katharine Augusta Carl, eightyish, U. S. portrait painter; scalded by hot water in her bathtub; in Manhattan. In 1903, after arrangements requiring infinite tact and ceremony, Miss Carl started to paint the portrait of China's Dowager Empress. When she had finished three, Her Majesty was so pleased with the whole procedure that she wanted Miss Carl to continue painting her picture indefinitely...
...writing naturalistic musical descriptions of mundane scenes and events. In his symphonic poem, Don Quixote, he made the brass instruments of the orchestra bleat like sheep. In his later Symphonia Domestica, an enormous orchestra of 108 players was set to work imitating the sound of a baby in a bathtub. He boasted that he could depict anything in music recognizably, even a glass of water. Critics deplored his vulgarity, but they had to admit that Composer Strauss was one of the most gifted orchestrators in the history of orchestral music...
...villa, Chateau La Croe on the French Riviera, leased by the Duke & Duchess of Windsor fortnight ago, announced Windsor Castle last week, "does not contain any gold bathtub...
This is a private organization which operates a spa in the central Georgia mountains where the President occasionally went to swim after becoming paralyzed by poliomyelitis. Although doctors know that the chief merit of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation over a swimming pool or big bathtub is the fact that the residents can bathe in the open air in winter time, the place became a mecca for infantile-paralytics. After paying off mortgages with the dance money, putting up new buildings, Georgia Warm Springs had accommodations for about 300 infantile-paralytics at $21 per week, and some 75 charity cases...
...course, it is obvious to those who keep their eyes open when walking in Forest Hills that your reporter described the tennis matches on both occasions while reclining in his bathtub or sipping a mint julep in the cloistered halls of some Manhattan bar. The trees which were planted here 20 years ago are doing nicely, thank you, and can be seen readily with the naked...