Word: tub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside, a street car stands on the track where it was stopped early in the week to save electricity. My bath tub is full of water for what we know in these days as "flushing." Three blocks away in the centre of my hilltop suburb is an enormous black iron tank with Legionnaires in charge, where I may get water. We boil it, we boil all water, as Mr. Dykstra instructs, but water has been provided. We are using again at the request of the City Hall, canned vegetables instead of fresh to save water...
...toward this with outstretched hands and fingers gropes the kneeling centre-figure of "Mrs. Simpson." *Two telegrams from Mrs. Simpson were delivered to His Majesty in South Wales and after laying down the last of these he ordered a remedy she has previously recommended with success: a tub of hot water in which King Edward soaked his feet for an hour last week, meditatively puffing his pipe in the royal private...
...third time they had ever heard it. Faces fell when the directors announced that Bodanzky would not return this season, that plump, pleasant Fritz Reiner would succeed him. Know-it-alls began to gossip that Reiner planned to pare down expenses and substitute cheaper instruments for the prescribed tub en quartet, the indispensable bass trumpet. In London last summer Reiner quietly persuaded Philadelphia's Mrs. Curtis Bok to lend him four tuben and a bass trumpet, had them shipped to San Francisco, hired four members of the Oakland Symphony to practice up on them. This week when he hopped...
...good-humored, assiduous. In Knight Without Armor occurs a bathtub scene. While it was being made one day (in England), she slipped, sprawled, spread-eagled naked before the camera crew. Everyone was flustered except Dietrich. She laughed, picked herself up, popped back in the tub (see cut). During the production of The Garden of Allah she could tell whether the take would be good or bad by the intensity of the light on her face. She tested personally her dress materials and makeup under lights...
...Tub In Toledo, Ohio, Barbara Beck was photographed in a fur-lined bathtub...