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Word: showering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House dining room, Vag read the typewritten words on the back of a penny post card which had come in his morning mail. "I assume," it began, "that you forgot the appointment I made for a tutorial conference last Monday afternoon. . . ." The words acted like a cold shower on Vag's consciousness. . . . "Please do not fail to appear this afternoon at two o'clock. The assignment, as you know, is . . . " Vag's eyes widened from half-sealed slits to round marbles. He looked at his watch. Twenty minutes of two. The assignment was some impossible-sounding psychology book. It didn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/23/1941 | See Source »

Rabaul has the legendary South Seas beauty of a very blue harbor, of casuarina and golden-fruited paupau trees, of silk-swathed Chinese and darkly graceful natives who dye their woolly hair in vivid colors and call a shower bath "washwash on top." During World War I, when part of New Guinea was taken over from Ger many, the Australians told them about the change of sovereignty as follows: "Me been talk with you now, now you give three cheers belongina new feller master. No more um Kaiser. God save um King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW GUINEA: King Move Um Capital | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...haven't had a shower since last Saturday or a sponge bath since last Monday," she sobbed on the shoulder of a hay-fever blessed CRIMSON reporter, "but the Adams House Senior I came down to see won't let me use his bathtub or his shower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO BATHS FOR DIRTY AS SENIOK SCORNS PLEA | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

During a recent raid on the City of London a bomb shower fired the wooden desks and floor of St. Dunstan's schoolroom. Verger Thompson doused desks and floor with water, causing the bomb fragments to explode. Undaunted, Fireman Thompson stamped out the fragments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Life of a Fireman | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...ladies kissed us good night," reported Caroline, 12, and Eddie, 9. "They meant it kindly, but it is not very nice being kissed by people you don't know. Especially ladies who get on committees." Eddie was baffled by Toronto mores. Delighted with his first experience in a shower bath, he invited a little English refugee girl to share it with him. A refugee committee woman found them splashing happily together, howled in dismay: "You dirty little wretches! Little boys and girls don't do that sort of thing in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: You're Welcome | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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