Word: bathtubs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bathtub Situation. "The situation we are faced with," continued Statesman Stimson, "is something like a bathtub. The stopper has been out and the water has been running out rapidly. It is necessary first to put the plug back in the hole. Then it is necessary to examine what water is left and to see if it is sufficient for the purposes at hand. If it is, well and good; if it is not it may be necessary to put more water...
...tried to sip proffered champagne and immediately begged for ice water. At the airport hotel sympathetic officials finally desisted from their rapid-fire questioning, put food on the flyers' plates and bade them eat. At n p. m. they were in bed (Gatty had fallen asleep in the bathtub). At 7:30 they were Moscow bound...
...prove that it is flat (TIME, March 16), it. had been reported that he was dying. "I shall not die until 1976!" he cried. (He is now 61.) "I merely-scalded my foot while bathing. I was a silly fool to scald myself and will never go near a bathtub again as long as I live...
Died. Edwin Haldeman Dennison, 58, U. S. Consul in Quebec since 1919; in Quebec. A partial paralytic, he slipped in his bathtub, struck the hot water tap, was scalded head-to-foot before he could be pulled out. He died two days later...
...Take bathtubs. I wouldn't care if every bathtub was exactly the same if all people had them and would use them. . . . It's all right to standardize so long as we standardize UP and not DOWN...