Word: showerbath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biltmore Hotel at 7 a. m. one morning last week, the Institute sprang Lesson No. 1 on 60 students, mostly admen of the questing, high-pressure type with whom Dale Carnegie's courses were popular. Dr. Reilly called the First Annual Straight Thinking Breakfast a "mental showerbath." As the pupils nodded over grapefruit, cereal, ham & eggs, coffee (price: $10), he revealed his formula: "1) Separate facts from opinions and look at the facts from the standpoint of who, what, when and where. 2) Arrive at an intelligent definition of the real problem and do not jump from an opinion...
...take the oath. Outside, under a sea of ineffective umbrellas, several thousand soggy people who had for hours been progressively impregnated with cold rain stamped their feet in impatience. On the open pine-board stands continuously flushed by the downpour some Congressmen and distinguished guests took an icy showerbath in full regalia. In the inaugural pavilion covered by a roof beneath which the gusty torrent swept, attendants dumped the puddles from chairs as the Cabinet and seven Justices of the Supreme Court (including all its aged conservative members) marched down the official red carpet, which oozed water like a sponge...
Aside from the possibilities of gathering "scoops" about the University, there is a large field of outside features. It was a CRIMSON candidate who first discovered that a German submarine was cruising off Massachusetts during the war. Another interviewed Al Smith in his showerbath. Any number of men, such as President Roosevelt, Bill Tilden, Victor Moore, Ogden Mills, Walter Lippmann, and Lewis Douglas; have been personally questioned by CRIMSON...