Word: tub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house was blocked to traffic, surrounded with barbed wire and guarded by platoons of marines. At the cream stucco mansion, until recently a rest house for Navy aviators, the President had a spacious, 50-foot bedroom ; the bathroom of Presidential aide Sam Rosenman had a sunken tile tub big enough to swim in. The Commander in Chief set up military headquarters on a sundeck overlooking Waikiki's long, rolling surf...
...Canterville Ghost (M.G.M.) is a tub of ectoplasm (Charles Laughton) whose cowardice, in a bygone century, caused his brave old father to wall him up in the family castle. The unhappy ghost was doomed to walk the night until some male Canterville should give a good account of himself in battle. But throughout Britain's embattled history, Cantervilles left only a trail of white feathers...
...Tub. "Most of the palace is shut off now. . . . 'Wartime severity, you know,' said Sir Press Agent. Unlike Broadway publicity boys, he didn't ask me to put in a plug for anything, except perhaps for the palace bathtubs which have rings painted around them at the five-inch level. That's for wartime conservation. The rule in Britain is that you bathe in five inches of water, maximum. . . . 'After all,' Sir Eric said, 'the royal family are people, you know...
...Stories of nude bathing parties in a river near Fresno, of Japanese men & women "bare naked" cavorting in an outdoor tub...
Last week, The Twentieth Century Fund published Stuart Chase's brightly written answers under the title Where's the Money Coming From? ($1). Once Author Chase was a tub thumper for a planned economy run from the top by a general staff of technicians, with U.S. industry-and consumers- regimented at the bottom (A New Deal, The Economy of Abundance). Now he raises his voice just as lustily for the widest possible free enterprise. The Federal Government would in effect underwrite a free U.S. economy, keeping the lightest of fingers on the controls...