Word: showering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Swanson tries to live up to the rumor that there is a dash of insanity in her family. It is too bad that a picture which is really good entertainment should suffer from sloppy photography (e.g. the shot of Swanson drying herself in a towel robe after a shower, in which the spectator is allowed to discover that she has been taking a shower in a brassiere). Too free play has been given to the famed Swansonian mannerisms, goo goo eyeing and curling her upper lip to show off her teeth. Best shot: the fadeout, with Miss Swanson dreaming...
...York this beautiful morning experienced a shock in their ordinarily clean newspaper. Thanks to the Sunday clerk of a committee of the National Republican Club, this committee, with no constructive program, no civic pride, no regard for the fair name of the city, labored and brought forth a shower of hydrogen gas,* offensive alike to decent Republicans as well as Democrats and independents. As for my private life, I will match it against all the Pharisaical composers of that tirade. . . . The papers assert that the chairman of the committee is named 'A. Fox.' This is evidently a mistake...
...this manner. The extreme self-possession of the average Princeton man gives him the somewhat meretricious air of having a vast knowledge of the world and its ways, a quality that is revered everywhere. He is inclined to cultivate the social graces, to have his daily shave, shine, shower, and shampoo, and to wear the right clothes on the right occasions; hence he is a very desirable member of the society in which he moves. But the fact remains that he is a hard person to know for what he really is, that sooner or later the world will wash...
...advice latent in the accompanying press from Princeton's daily carries with it a real Message. For those who have already experienced the shave, shower, shine, and shampoo sequence, it will be welcome corroboration. To those super-sophisticates for whom this little round of activity has lost its first blush of freshness, it offers consolation and reward...
...their children. At 4:30 a. m. on the fatal morning last week, the Obregon family were sound asleep in their beds when the bomb went off in their bathroom. Potent, the explosion tore through the bathroom wall, wrecked Son- in-Law Obregon's expensive plate-glass shower bath, hurled some of the bits of glass with such terrific force as to embed them in the wall...