Word: tub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting her working day in an 8:30 tub, Miss Beatty dictates for half an hour to one of the "angels" (secretaries) who handle her voluminous mail. At breakfast, she confers with staff members, collects ideas from Husband Bill, her No. 1 legman. Grabbing a cab at 10:30, she reaches the studio in time for a brief powwow with program guests. After the program she goes to teas, movies, dinners, the theater, often gets home past midnight and soaks up more information by reading in bed until...
Allow me a derisive guffaw at the perversity of the esthetic editors of TIME, FORTUNE and the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM. After years of tub-thumping in favor of prefabricated housing they don't like the appearance of Carquinez Heights! Believe me, if one of the most sensitive artists in America today, I speak of "Bill" Wurster, cannot satisfy the champions of demountables with a bang-up job like the Vallejo project there must be something basically wrong with the theory. I studied the detail drawings and photos of this job very carefully and am at a loss to know...
Over one of Germany's powerful Zeesen transmitters last week plain Jane Anderson (TIME, Jan. 19) was going great guns. The middleaged, neurotic, American-born Axis tub thumper ("Lady Haw-Haw" to the British) was setting the U.S. short-wave audience straight on the Nazi food supply with a luscious description of a visit to a Berlin cocktail...
Back in the days when Dr. Archibald T. "Doc" Davison, master-builder of the present Crimson chorus, first took over, the club never sang anything but college songs. It scorned "highbrow" compositions, and stuck strictly to such lamp-post and bath-tub harmonies as "Bulldog on the Bank," or "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair...
...true he had a great team. At times, just at the end of the first quarter, for instance, when the Blue and Gold started to roll, they looked for all the world like the high powered machine the tub-thumpers had thumped them...