Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delightful. Luncheon, luncheon, puncheon before-I'll go, he decided. It wouldn't be right to cut his own roommate, even though that nutmeg floating...I can't, Vag said suddenly aloud, I can't drink that awful, awful awful any more. He braced himself for the shower, braced two or three times experimentally, then slumped into the chair and on with the radio. "And now our Morning Pops program, brought to you by Almeda Fiddle, presents Arthur Fiedler and the Bawwstun Pawwps in De Riccerio's "Dance of the..." Bang went the door to the bathroom...
...Chicago suburb 82 old ladies declared warmly: "We are all young enough to believe in love as a very important part of international relations." To prove it the ladies gave a shower last week at the Hollywood, ILL. British Old People's Home. Amid toasts drunk in sauterne or tea, they sent a copy of Love Ledger, a bride's first-year book, and a hand-stitched sachet pillow to Princess Elizabeth...
...share-your-shower-with-a-Mount-Holyoke-girl campaign gained rapid headway at Harvard over the weekend, as a steady stream of Dartmouth-game dates poured into Cambridge with sorrowful tales of the Connecticut Valley water shortage...
...doesn't take long for him to bounce back, though. After he has eased his cough by sucking on an orange, splashed around for 15 minutes in the shower, and stretched out on the nearest bench of table, he is already looking forward to next week...
Actually, the nearest many swimming candidates get to the water in preseason practice is the shower room, although some have been known to take a dip now and then on the sly. But this is unofficial and recreational--if pushing a kickboard for forty laps is your conception of a good time...