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...certain observance of good table manners is not an infringement of the freedom of eating; the practice of taking one's morning bath in the bathroom instead of in a glass tub before a mixed audience is not an infringement of the freedom of bathing; and my advice respecting the proposed lecture of Mrs. Russell no more affects the liberalism of the University of Wisconsin or its loyalty to free speech than the Hottentot alphabet-if there is one-affects the selling price of Wisconsin cheese...
President Frank, who had probably feared something like this, defended himself with a few remarks about the futility of taking a bath in a glass tub before the living-room window. This was purely metaphorical; the intentions of Mrs. Russell had been confined to a talk on "Should Women Be Protected?" It has been suggested that the figure of President Frank dates from the days when he was an assistant to Billy Sunday, an imputation that does not diminish its illuminating quality...
...could scarcely have been unaware last week, that his elder daughter, Lady Eleanor Smith, had so far departed from the family tradition of wit as to pen for a London newspaper the following bit of groveling gossip: "A friend of mine has just had installed a type of bath tub which will permit her to receive guests of both sexes while bathing. . . . The bath has a gorgeously all-concealing top. . . . She has already given a preliminary party at which I was not present...
...last week by Justice Scudder, was the man who investigated New York police corruption under Mayor Gaynor in 1912-13. More lately (1925-27), as U. S. Attorney, he was chief padlocker of the biggest and wettest of U. S. cities, and prosecutor in the famed Earl Carroll bath-tub case and in the alien property conspiracy case against Harry Micajah Daugherty and Thomas Woodnutt Miller...
...Shower Bath is full of a lot of naked businessmen who have just been trying to exercise. A scrawny little man is standing by the pool snickering at a brawny tub-of-guts who looks like Bully Boy Brewster. A bony oaf on the springboard is telling a dirty joke to a bald-headed codger with a pot belly. Goggle-eyed boosters paddle about in the pool or rub their misshapen haunches with towels. Near the showers is a scales for them to weight themselves...