Word: tub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moral Future. If the delegates did nothing else, they established a record for speed in international conferences. Within 72 hours after the conference started, the delegates, having approved a paper plug for Germany's leaking tub, adjourned to the royal garden party at Buckingham Palace where flunkies handed them large bowls of fresh raspberries with cream.* World stock exchanges signalled the event by going into a gentle decline...
...Petersburg, Ind., where water was scarce after a dry spell, Mrs. A. H. Wolven ran a hose to a tub from which her cow might drink. A thirsty rat ran up the hose, plunked into the water. Other thirsty rats heard his gurgling squeaks. Up the hose they ran, one after another. In the morning Mrs. Wolven found 19 drowned rats in her cow's tub...
...from Berlin and "streamlined" by a bath in wart-remover, the frog Wilhelm was a betting favorite. But while the crowd shrieked, jostled, fired revolvers, he covered only 4 ft. 8 in. in his three jumps. A pampered creature called Zenobia, imported from Kinston, N. C. in a tub of native water, raised cheers by doing 8 ft. 6 in. Then Angels Camp went wild as the bright green veteran Budweiser thrust thrice with his long green legs, shot down the course 11 ft. 5 in., was declared winner...
President Machado hops into his tub at 4:30 each morning. But his son-in-law, Senor Emilio Obregon, who has the room and the bathroom just above, is less spry. So is his wife. So are their children. At 4:30 a. m. on the fatal morning last week, the Obregon family were sound asleep in their beds when the bomb went off in their bathroom. Potent, the explosion tore through the bathroom wall, wrecked Son- in-Law Obregon's expensive plate-glass shower bath, hurled some of the bits of glass with such terrific force...
...went about grotesquely dressed, carrying a faded umbrella, wearing a ludicrous plug hat. He was mannerless, unkempt, and one wonders if he was not unwashed, in those days of the weekly bath in the foot tub, if a bath was taken at all. [As attorney, for the Illinois Central R. R. he was found] riding about on special trains furnished him and posing as 'Humble Abe Lincoln...