Word: shower
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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COMPLAINT is made that no lateral shower-baths have been provided in the Gymnasium, and that nothing has been done to regulate the temperature of the water...
...acts had been played midst a shower of plaudits...
...treads not on a daisy, and the shower...
...boating-man, that is, I saunter down to the club-house every afternoon, select a shell, and try to select an oar - oarful task - from the buttonless, broken-bladed specimens now on exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in time to take a shower-bath, to dress, and to arrive at Memorial Hall about six o'clock. By that time the rare beef has all disappeared, and the waiters are generally hidden behind that mysterious screen where there are so many "evidences of things known, but unseen...
...feet) are provided with stationary wash-bowls and bath-tubs, and have brick floors and glazed-brick walls; thus, the greatest durability and the greatest cleanliness are at once obtained. The small wing, between the other two, measures 14 by 10 feet, and is reserved for an enormous shower-bath. This room also is floored and walled with brick, and it is said that twelve or fifteen persons can stand under the "shower" at the same time...