Word: showering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said, "I am sorry that you had to climb so many steps to get here, but when I was Cleopatra in 'The House Boat on the Styx' I had a room below the stage and just before I was supposed to go on I was covered with a shower of dust from above so that you couldn't tell whether I was very badly tanned from my ride in the barge or just plain Topsy." Her final remark was in Italian, or perhaps it was Spanish. But she said it in such a disarming tone of voice that, whatever...
Later a bold newsgatherer slipped into the hotel suite to find Citizen Coolidge emerging from his shower. Asked the newsman: "Mr. Coolidge, is it true that you are planning to run again for the Presidency?" Waving him away with a bathtowel, Citizen Coolidge exclaimed: "Depart...
...Congress authorized construction of eight "treaty" or 10,000-ton cruisers. The Salt Lake City and the Pensacola were the first commissioned. Uncompleted in the water: the Northampton, Chester, Houston. Fortnight ago at Newport News the Augusta was launched under a shower of yellow Savannah River water. Unlaunched: the Louisville (63% completed), the Chicago (65% completed...
...water, after ten in the evening appears and disappears apparently at will. Anyone inclined to shower as late as ten-thirty does so at his own risk. A turn of the hot water tap, even when accompanied with prayers, is fully as likely to bring on acute pneumonia as steam. It is this uncertainly lurking in the plumbing which is the prime cause for discontent so manifest among even the most select of shower-room circles...
...will be impossible to get into the water with one's clothes on according to the designers. All entrances to the tank go first through a shower room, and then through an eight inch deep foot bath. There are two shower rooms, one on each side, containing 30 showers apiece. On the pool floor there are over a thousand lockers in rooms directly under the grandstand seats. Participants will not have to enter these rooms while still wet as there are two drying rooms furnished with hot air ventilation between the showers and lockers. Also, there are squad rooms...