Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial was that of a Negro butler-chauffeur accused of raping his young socialite employer, Eleanor Strubing, pretty wife of an advertising executive in Greenwich, Conn., suburb of New York City. According to her testimony she found him in her bedroom one evening when she emerged from a shower bath wearing only a towel, was raped thrice in various parts of the house, bound, gagged, threatened with a knife, taken for two automobile rides, finally thrown into an icy reservoir near which she was found hysterical. The Negro's defense was that she had invited his advances. A jury...
...shufflers. Unlike most national championships, this tournament was marked by fun and frolic. Spectators and contestants chatted back & forth, on every subject from the blizzards back home to next summer's crops. A stray dog scampered on to the courts, gave the players a merry chase. When a shower started, everyone adjourned to a covered grandstand, spent an hour singing old favorites...
Henry Reed of American Radiator and Charles Nolte of Crane (neither of whom got a drip of Mack's shower) knew exactly how it was done. By buying directly from manufacturers, Purchaser Mack had eliminated the wholesaler's commission. To the tradition-soaked leaders of an industry which believes in the sanctity of the wholesaler's discount and in the wholesaler's friend, the master plumber, as the only true outlet to the public, this was heresy. Adherents to The System, like Crane and American Radiator, call the renegades d-t-u's because they...
This week, as U. S. retail sales reached their annual peak, U. S. corporate largess did the same. Directors shook the Christmas tree, brought down a shower of bonuses, raises, extra dividends...
Floodwaters crept over Dunster House last night as Malcolm McNair, Jr. '42 planted his feet on the drain of his shower and stood motionless for over sixty minutes...