Word: shower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arises at 7 a. m., takes needle shower, carefully chooses clothes from large wardrobe...
...through the winter months T. H. Brown's glass eye had functioned as well as could be expected. Last fortnight as he stepped from a well-heated house in Ranger, Tex., cold air struck his false eye, caused it to burst into a shower of pieces, pour tiny particles of glass over his face and into his one normal...
...tiny garden situated upon the sunny expanse of the Square of Quiretti. in Rome, workmen erected a fountain whose light waters were to dance into the air and fall in a shower of silver sparks. The fountain was in the form of human figures, incompletely clothed; around the Square of Quiretti are numerous convents and educational institutions. The inmates of these houses disliked the fountain because of the nudity of its statuary; not long after its erection, Pope Pius XI himself sent deputies into the sunny plaza to gaze upon the fountain and determine the degree of its propriety...
...Joseph Duveen had just bought the Gainsborough for a price that set a record for U. S. picture auctions. The painting, a large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged to the late steel tycoon, Elbert Henry Gary. The other 38 paintings raised the total price for the evening's auctioning to $1,154,650, the record* for a single sale...
...portrays dramatically--a la bare back and silver wig--a woman whose ruined life was brought about through her husband's indifference. A railroad wreck, gambling dens in full blast, interiors of choice Parisian restaurants, and sorrowful close-ups of Pola drenching her little girl with a shower of joyful tears at the end, make the picture very enjoyable for students leading suppressed lives and rebelling against the monotonous humdrum of Cambridge...