Word: bathtubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lock lay like a tremendous, zebra-striped bathtub for Paul Bunyan. (Down were the barrage balloons that usually guard it.) Up to the walk atop the 680-ton lock gates stepped 16-year-old Jan Harns, smashed a beribboned bottle of champagne over the black iron and concrete of the walk. Thus this week one of the world's most strategic locks was formally opened to deep-laden, deep-tooting ore boats. The lock, named for General Douglas MacArthur, is the newest on the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, the most vital waterway in the U.S. Through the Soo passes...
...dental chair and firm foothold for the doctor on the afterdeck. Finally in 1936 he had one built that exactly suited him-the Cheechako (why Good named her the Eskimo for "tenderfoot" no one knows), a neat, 42-foot, diesel-engined ketch with a hot-water heating system, a bathtub and a small organ for his handsome daughter to play...
...session on what was good or bad about Old Dutch-and other-cleansers. Then he got some of his research staff (the mail-room girls look like Powers models) licensed to sell Dutch Cleanser from door to door, taking notes while housewives scrubbed. He set others to scrubbing every bathtub in the 450-room Knickerbocker Hotel, even did some research on his own hook, scouring a frying pan that his secretary smeared with thick black grease. And his "flying spearhead" (top Grant executives from all offices who move in on a given advertising problem in one place, speed...
...imagined that the way to get on with his job was to make himself socially objectionable. He expanded his mustache (a fixture on & off from his 19th year) to a full beard, wore dirty brown corduroy suits, bought a yellow chow dog to ride beside him in his bathtub-sized yellow Renault roadster. He became socially unsought-after. A Hollywood urchin finally shamed him out of it with the old standby: "Get a horse...
...Moatsie gave in. For months she had struggled against the sex prejudice that had tried to get her out of Moscow. Now, she exclaimed to the press bureau chief: "Do you think I am crazy enough to stay on in a place where there isn't a bathtub, where bedbugs have bitten me ... where everything smells awful...