Word: tub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corners & crannies of the bathroom at Angmering-on-Sea. The overflow drain of the bathtub told the story. Next morning Sir Richard examined the pipe. It was about 1 1/6 in. in diameter, about 3 ft. 5 in. long, in the form of an S-bend. At the tub end of the tube was a perforated waste guard. The other end of the tube was open and passed through the wall to let the tub water run out onto the open ground. Sir Richard put his lips to the pipe's open end, blew. A low, sepulchral reverberation grumbled...
...true picture of any social problem but high tables in the stultifying atmosphere of Harvard self-approval. The average Harvard man is usually a disciple of the mysterious metaphysics of the department of Government, or else he is whooping it up in the train of some attractive tub-thumper like Mencken. Such muddleheadedness, naturally derived from their betters, leads the students to support Hoover because it is the thing to do, or to support Roosevelt because he sounds so nice and liberal, even though they know you can't prove it. Those men who might be politically minded find themselves...
...Morison: Development of Harvard University Abraham Lincoln Gordon Life of Benvenuto Cellini Clement Lowell Harriss Carroll: Alice in Wonderland Isadore Herman Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress Robert Kaplan Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield William Wallace Kirkpatrick Byron's Poems Paul Lachlan MacKendrick Pericles and Aspasia Joseph Neyer Swift: Tale of a Tub Philander Silas Ratzkoff Scott: Redgauntlet Johnathan Barlow Richards Carlyle: Miscellanies John Thomas Sapienza Robinson's Poems Richard Bulger Schlatter Hallam: History of England and the Middle Ages Edgar Lawrence Smith James: Charles W. Eliot John William Walsh Carvantes: Don Quixote Class of 1935 Caesari Lombardo Barber History of Wars...
...potato salad and deviled eggs, which had been prepared the night before. It was the second wholesale case of poisoning from potato salad within the week. At Massillon, Ohio, 200 delegates to the Ohio State Communist convention collapsed in a hall after eating salad prepared in a galvanized tub. More than 100 of the Communists went to the hospital, 50 others were laid on Boy Scout cots, treated on the hospital lawn...
...remembered reading that a famed French beauty bathed in asses' milk. He ordered gallons of milk sent to Actress Held's apartment, waited. The milk company sued him; newshawks asked the reason for so huge a bill. Ziegfeld exhibited to them smiling Anna neckdeep in a milk-filled bath tub. That and her wasp-waist made her famous. He divorced her in 1912. She died in 1918, crippled by her corsets...