Word: corday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Charlotte Corday stormed into Jean Paul Marat's bathroom in 1793, he was in his high, churnlike tub and she stabbed him to the heart. When Siamese soldiers and sailors stormed last week into King Prajadhipok's Bangkok bathroom (see p. 18), made by Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., the big U. S. bathtub was empty...
...funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...