Word: showering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...autumn day in 1538. Twelve years before. Hans Holbein the Younger had quit the town to seek richer rewards elsewhere. Now, dressed in the finest silk and velvet, he was court painter to King Henry VIII of England; his name was known throughout Europe, and Basel was ready to shower him with honors and commissions to lure him back permanently. The city failed, but it has cherished Holbein as its own ever since. This summer, when the University of Basel celebrated its 500th birthday, it decided to mark the occasion with a special tribute...
...fifth-grade room, a shy girl of twelve whispered in Spanish: "I want to be a teacher someday. A fifth-grade teacher." After paying 13? apiece, the youngsters downed a hefty lunch, wrapped seconds in paper napkins to take home. Each child brushed his teeth and had a shower. "Now at least they're neat and clean," said Principal Paul Knight. "That's progress...
...reserved for women. Marriage, Barnes often said, was just a cheap and wholesome substitute for prostitution. He delighted in bullying female employees into tears, embarrassed one young secretary by dictating letters to her from his steam bath, interspersing his correspondence with commands to fetch towels and turn on the shower for him. When Edith Powell, art critic for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, had some mild reservations about the Soutines in a rare public exhibit of Barnes's paintings, he wrote her a thunderous letter stating that she could never be a true art critic until she had slept with...
...time he hopped off a Cincinnati Reds bus during a brief stop to buy a case of cold brew, downed two bottles while getting his change. Former teammates remember being unable to get into his hotel room because he had stuffed towels under the door, turned on the shower's hot water full blast, and while resting on his bed, converted the place into a steam bath in an effort to sweat off a few of his 250 lbs. But the amiable giant who furnishes the stuff for such stories is no modern Babe Ruth: he is Stephen Thomas...
...odyssey is a kind of poor man's around-the-world-in-80-days. There is a low-keyed humor in Keith Stewart's role as a provincial Ulysses, for the West Baling mechanic has never before set eyes on a piece of foreign currency, taken a shower, or been on the water, and he packs his English woolens for the tropics. But Keith's loving care of craft and his fascination with minutiae of technique will win the reader's respect. In the end, though, it is neither tropic adventures nor miniature marvels that generate...