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Word: shower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon usually starts with a cool shower. Later one goes into the little room, stretches out on a cot, and is soon bathed in sunshine. Beginners are usually allowed two or three minutes, while the veterans enjoy it for 15 or 20 minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CLUB MEMBERS ACQUIRE TROPICAL TAN | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

...shop, but there are also ancient elm trees that once sheltered a tougher tribe of Yankees. Arthur Gordon, a descendant, is the grand vizier of Berkenmeer. With an air of detached gentility, he saw to it that "the hay was got in from the golf links before a thunder shower, dances were run off with no deficit, horses were not frightened "by steamrollers. . . ." An ebullient Rotary had begun to suspect him of not being a big enough booster. But such heresy was momentarily dispelled after the World War when he invited the U. S. Government to fill his family-memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parachute | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

There are no inside cabins and most of the first-class staterooms have either private baths or shower. The deck has dancing space; there are two swimming pools. The International Mercantile Marine Corp., through its Panama-Pacific Line, owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Travel | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Equipped with satin-covered furniture, shower baths, phonograph, radio, cinema, telephones; loaded with clerks, valets, maids, detectives, railroad police, extra train crew and personages; guarded at bridgeheads by riflemen; awaited along the line by panting engines and peering populace, a Presidential train started for Key West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Coolidge Special | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...thunder shower passed over here about three o'clock Wednesday afternoon, lightning striking several orchards...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/21/1928 | See Source »

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