Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentiment scattered sweetly here and there throughout the length of a serious movie, a kind of salve to smooth the rough edges of the plot; but literally to take a bath in the ointment is neither pleasant nor logical. And such was "To Mary With Love." It was a bathtub of sentiment, and it was neither pleasant nor logical...
...Quoddy Village, so that Maine men could not say, as they did three years ago, that he had failed to visit them when only a mile away. He saw the neat, clean, $1,500,000 'Quoddy Village erected for the dam builders, was engrossed by the bathtub model of the power project with its four-inch tides demonstrating how power will be made if the President has his way with Congress...
Majesty, the royal and imperial grandmother asked amiably: "Whom have I the honor of receiving?" Announced Lilybet: "Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug!" This caused not a flicker upon the countenance of Her Majesty, but after the game was over she asked, "How did you happen to think of such queer names?" "Oh, we didn't think of them," explained Lilybet. "While we were dressing up to play, Uncle David came in. We told him we needed some new names and he suggested 'Lord Bathtub and Lady Plug...
...Association of Retail Grocers in Dallas, Tex. last week, the most original grocer in the U. S. was preparing to give housewives another exciting thrill in Memphis, Tenn. Name of that grocer was Clarence Saunders, a onetime miner who likes to wrestle with financial problems all night in a bathtub of hot water. Name of his latest merchandising excitement: Keedoozle Corp. Cried Keedoozler Saunders: "Within a year I'll be worth $10,000,000. I won't have that much on hand, but I'll be worth it because I'll have Keedoozle...
Died. Benjamin Bacharach, 71, real estate man, onetime national president of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, eldest of Atlantic City's Bacharach brothers (Republican Representative Isaac, longtime Mayor Harry); of burns and shock after scalding himself in his bathtub; in Atlantic City...