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...untrammeled freedoom, and the young wanderer doffed his assumed naivete and reveled. From cops, and robbers over the back fences in the morning to surreptitions ice cream cones at the corner (on uncle's nickels) in the afternoon, and the glorious splash in the tub at night, Saturday was a grand day of Back To Nature...
...exhibits, and himself exhibiting a healthy interest in the things of the mind. But on Saturday, especially in the fall, all this generally goes off with the Friday night undressing, and Saturday's clean shirt brings with it a new character. Ice cream cones have vanished, and tub splashing is gone with all dead things, but the splashing spirit is still ready to splash...
...four men in a fog inflated their pneumatic tub, paddled 200 yards to the shore of the little fishing village of Ver-sur-Mer, where in 1588 one of the prides of the Spanish Armada had been shattered on the rocks. Lieutenant Noville twice returned to the America's wreck to save the first transatlantic air mail, a tiny Betsy Ross flag for President Gaston Doumergue of France, some of Commander Byrd's scientific data...
...entirely innocent of Swedish customs. Upon ringing for a bath, they were led down the corridor by a woman exactly resembling in age, attractiveness and dress the ordinary U. S. "scrub-woman." Unsuspecting, many U. S. delegates entered the bathroom, closed the door, disrobed and got into the tub. The Swedish bathwoman, having retired during this interval, suddenly re-entered without warning, soaped and scrubbed the delegate in question, then applied a towel as large as a sheet, patting vigorously until...
...honor was runner-up to the recent Lindbergh carnival. But the vaudeville and cinema contracts in her honor were not as fat as admirers expected. Her lawyer, Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, finally allowed her to accept a contract which required that she perform in a glass tub on vaudeville stages. "The idea of an endurance swimmer showing the public anything in a one-stroke tub suggests a whale doing a marathon in an eye cup," remarked a Chicago Tribune writer...