Word: tub
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aurelie Bourgevin (Miss Keane) runs the gamut of 100 emotions, 60 years, 14 costumes, several husbands. Harking back to Romance, she is allowed rapid shifts in mood and attire. Her laryngeal versatility is given scope by screaming in childbirth, yearning in bed and scrubbing her child in its bath tub. Her makeup, modeled after the Divine Sarah's, seems authentic. Sartorially it is striking, but dramatically its fine feathers droop...
...Golden Bed. Cecil B. De Mille is the man who made the marble bath tub and the towering music room symbols of riches and society. Silk sheets and aquatic revels in the garden were his stock in trade. He became one of the conspicuous cinema cheaters of truth. He prospered. This one is about a bed with an ancient history and how its influence affected modern characters. It has specimen splendor of the De Mille method. It is about as tasty as painted candy...
...mystery of two champagne bottles recently unearthed by the workmen engaged in remodelling the interior of Massachusetts Hall. The two sinful bottles were discovered reposing side by side in a rusted tin tub at the bottom of an unused and forgotten well under the southeast corner of the old building. They were handed over to Mr. C. R. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers...
...record in the saving of lives" is an opinion accepted in the medical world. His famous book, dedicated to "The Young Mothers of America," is in the nature of a catechism. It asks and answers such questions as these: "At what age may a child be given a full tub bath?" "At what age should a child first laugh aloud?" "When should a child walk alone?" "How many teeth are there in the first set?" "Why should mothers nurse their children?" "Is rocking (in sleep) necessary?" "How much crying is normal for a very young baby?" "What...
Members of the Senate received, by mail, a petition from The Association of Overworked, Underpaid Dishwashing Housewives whose headquarters are "by the cookstove and the cradle, with the wash tub nearby...