Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While we are doing our best to keep the typewriter from floating away as the waves swirl around the room, weatherman Dick "Cobber" Shorrock assures us that this is only a light early-fall shower. It seems that the monsoon season around Boston doesn't start until late winter. In the meantime several bright and penetrating suggestions have been made to alleviate the situation...
...dinner jackets and long dresses. Fifth Avenue seethed: Adrian's plaid taffeta with a bustle back was the sensation of Bonwit Teller's fashion show titled "I'm Dressing for my Darling"; Saks offered a beaded wool evening cloak ($139); the Tailored Woman recommended a shower of ostrich plumes on violet crepe. Lord & Taylor bought full-page ads, burbled: "Tonight-fabulous word once more. Now that we're dressing for it . . . once more." In San Francisco, Columnist Lucius Beebe applauded "the prevalence of opera hats and white ties" in the cream-&-gold opera house, a "lavish...
...Philadelphia the crowd was bigger, standing five deep at the station gate, waving small American flags. Dewey went straight to a press conference at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, riding in an open car at the head of a 25-car motorcade. Going down Broad Street, there was a brief shower of ticker tape, no big, organized confetti cascade. In the afternoon, Dewey paid the necessary visit to Independence Hall, required of all political candidates...
...heard about a young Polish girl who had refused to undress for a shower. The degenerate, sadistic Mussfelt who ran the crematorium ordered her shoved into the furnace alive. Her hair burned quick and bright. Then she crisped up like bacon on an over-hot skillet...
...Chambers. We got out to inspect the bathhouses. Said Kudriavtsev without emotion: "They came here first for a shower. Then the Germans said: 'Now you have had your wash. Go in there.' " He led us into one of four gas chambers. It was a solid grey concrete room, about 20 ft. square and 7 ft. high. A single large steel door sealed the entrance hermetically. There were three apertures, two for the pipes which brought in the gas, one, a thick glass peephole, protected by steel netting. It took about seven minutes for this "Zyklon B" to kill the occupants...