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Word: showering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...split second she appears in his cabin in her underclothes, gives him a mighty hug while press photographers do the rest. All this feverish by-play ends in a curious reconciliation scene. Eadie gets drunk. To sober her up, young T. R. Paige pops her under a shower, proposes for the second time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 13, 1934 | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...handle of a silver-plated spoon vanished in a shower of sparks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 250,000 Amperes | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...Every evening he has spent long hours giving advice on religion, money, careers and love to all young comers. Every morning from 6 to 12 he has heard confessions, given communion. He is tall, grey-fringed, smiling, athletic. His day begins at 4:30 a. m. with a cold shower, includes, summer & winter, an afternoon swim in the campus lake, an evening stroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Our Lady's Man | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...disgusting clutter of his room. He saw the remnants of his Vintage 99 (99 cents), his pictures awry, his clothes in disarray. Winter and sottish hibernation. . . Turning again to the window and with a last fine whiff of April morning, the Vagabond strode with Merrimanly grandeur to the shower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/12/1934 | See Source »

...Mens sana in corpore sana;" cleanliness is next to godliness, and the shower room is next to Ward 3. And what a shower! We believe (and who will disagree?) it is impossible to overstress the importance of perfection in shower fixtures. This shower is just like a woman, one moment hot, the next cold. Possessed of woman's prerogative, it varies in temperature and force. Sometimes it merely ceases to function. Should some one take a glass of water some, where in the building, the shower reflects the fact instanter. Above the cubicle's door one well might read, "Abandon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To the Great Unwashed | 3/24/1934 | See Source »

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