Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average miner lives in a company-owned, one-story, unpainted wooden shack more than 30 years old. Of 1,154 company houses surveyed, only one in ten had a bathroom with tub or shower; 75% had outdoor privies (few meeting minimum sanitary standards); less than half had piped-in water; only a third were properly screened. Well over half the towns had no sewage system or garbage collection; housewives often dumped garbage near the house or in foul streams running through the town (see cut). Though miners lack bathrooms at home, less than half the mines have showers for washing...
...Hollywood, a manufacturer decided to publicize a system of perfuming shower baths, got Starlet Joan Barton-recently voted among the 13 best-dressed U.S. women-to take off her clothes and stand in an aromatic spray...
...After a shower and rubdown, a family dinner at 7, the President usually goes back to his upstairs study with an armful of papers, intelligence reports, news summaries. He relaxes by listening to the radio, or taking a turn at the piano. No movie fan, he avoids the White House showings, except for an occasional newsreel of himself. Most evenings he is in bed by 11 o'clock...
...were closing in on them. In Atlanta, teen-agers who possessed juiced-up cars had developed a process known as "scratching." They started the car in reverse, whipped backwards in a tight semicircle, then slammed the gears into low and roared off with a squeal of tires and a shower of dust...
...which is different, if nothing else, there is nothing novel about "Lady in the Lake." The plot is old hat of the most battered variety, involving, in addition to the immersed female who is never fished out for the edification of the audience, a gentleman stone dead in a shower and the hero (you) half dead and half drowned in whiskey in a wrecked automobile. There are moments of suspense, that are given a refreshing new dimension by the point of view, but they fail to save the picture from a dreariness that is enhanced by indifferent acting by everyone...