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Wishful anti-Perónistas seized on the last remark as proof that he was slipping. Their points: he was having trouble holding his Nationalists, Radicals and Communists together; one of his best-known labor leaders had quarreled with him; his old nationalist tub-thumper, La Tribuna, this week broke with him for getting ready to sign up with...
Many a U.S. doctor dreads the monthly appearance of the Reader's Digest: chances are that Paul de Kruif will be tub-thumping for some new variety of snake oil. And chances are that a lot of patients will clamor for the new remedy, then grumble when told it is dubious or premature...
...chronicler), but the Church was so lukewarm toward cleanliness that, says the author, St. Agnes was canonized for flatly refusing ever to bathe at all. Hot bathwater was still considered effeminate in the early 19th Century: when Queen Victoria ascended the throne, Buckingham Palace contained not one tub, and the master of a great English college pooh-poohed a proposal to provide baths for the student body, with the words: "These young men are with us only for eight weeks at a time...
Like most present-day preachers, fiery, 71-year-old Dr. Morrison does not confine his preaching to theological or strictly religious concerns. In 1930 he tub-thumped in the Century for Prohibition, in 1940 he came out against a Roosevelt third term. Before Pearl Harbor, the Century was "non-interventionist," afterward "supported...
...Quonset huts, Army barracks, or trailers are included in the units to be sent here. Each six-family dwelling includes four two-bedroom suites, and two three-bedroom apartments. The kitchenette is located at one end of the living room, and the bathroom boasts a shower, but no tub...