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...fish for whom the food was bought are long gone. Originally there were seventeen of them. But the smaller ones were eaten by the larger until six pickerel and two sunfish remained in the bath-tub, which was their home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Menagerie Loses J. Leslie Hotson McGrew, Ring Tailed Monkey, but Chester Greenough, Marmoset, Remains | 5/26/1925 | See Source »

...tub of soap, a long cart rope, a frying pan and kettle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Collection Given University Shows History of Harvard Song Writing From Ballads Through Mazurkas to Ragtime | 4/9/1925 | See Source »

...club just started in Claverly, called the Innocents Cooperative Union, comprises all those unfortunate souls whose goody persists in making her morning call while they are in the bath tub. Once in, nothing short of dynamite will dislodge her. Formerly, the best thing to do was to enter into the spirit of the pastime and laughingly take six or seven baths while she was reading the fashion page of last month's Vanity Fair. It would do no good to rush upon her in full undress: she was old and callous and stood her ground like a man. Neither would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/8/1925 | See Source »

...Aurelie Bourgevin (Miss Keane) runs the gamut of 100 emotions, 60 years, 14 costumes, several husbands. Harking back to Romance, she is allowed rapid shifts in mood and attire. Her laryngeal versatility is given scope by screaming in childbirth, yearning in bed and scrubbing her child in its bath tub. Her makeup, modeled after the Divine Sarah's, seems authentic. Sartorially it is striking, but dramatically its fine feathers droop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 16, 1925 | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...Golden Bed. Cecil B. De Mille is the man who made the marble bath tub and the towering music room symbols of riches and society. Silk sheets and aquatic revels in the garden were his stock in trade. He became one of the conspicuous cinema cheaters of truth. He prospered. This one is about a bed with an ancient history and how its influence affected modern characters. It has specimen splendor of the De Mille method. It is about as tasty as painted candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

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