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Word: bathtubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland, the estate of Henry C. Wakeman, Detroit lingerie salesman who was fatally injured when he slipped on a cake of soap in a Cleveland hotel bathtub, lost a suit to collect industrial compensation for his death when Judge George P. Baer ruled that a traveling salesman's work does not include taking a bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...film pass, during which time the Doctor catalogues the position and character (Announcer: "Observe, please, that each quintuplet has a different personality." This is said triumphantly.) of all but the nurses. By some miracle the last scene arrives--a return to the bathroom scene, but this time only the bathtub can be seen. Four supple bodies are being launched by the nurses into the water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/11/1937 | See Source »

Announcer: "It is an amazing thing that last year all the quintuplets could get into one bathtub; now, alas, the fifth must wait for the others. If only Mrs. Dionne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/11/1937 | See Source »

...expedition of four men intends to survey for oil the whole of Afghanistan and 180-000, square miles of territory in Iran. The equipment includes a portable bathtub and palm beach suits for evening wear in camp. The region is practically unknown geographically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buie, Geology Section Man, Leaves on Persian Survey | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

Correspondents of the United Press at Gibraltar and of the Associated Press at Lisbon reported last week that beauteous, copper-haired Spanish Cinemactress Rosita Diaz, who once sat naked in a bathtub for nine hours during a Hollywood film-shooting, had been shot as a radical spy by the Whites. This made big news. Rosita's picture was splashed over the world's press. At week's end a Hollywood friend sent a cautious cablegram to Segovia saying she had heard that Rosita had been in "a serious accident." Back came a cablegram signed "Rosita" saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Disease Area | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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