Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Recent statistic: In the U. S., one tub to every 20 persons; one automobile to every seven...
...would have felt about Nature if he had visited the tropics. He accuses Swift of the modern sin against the Holy Ghost, sentimentality: "If Swift were alive today, he would be the adored, the baroneted, the Order-of-Merited author, not of Gulliver, not of The Tale of a Tub, not of the Directions to Servants, but of A Kiss for Cinderella and Peter Pan." Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable. Even his epigrams have ceased to be annoyingly clever. If he still shocks, it is by the force of his idea rather than by his modern manners: "Normality...
...loll on the deck of a tanker, coatless, hatless, collarless, vestless, and with no photographers about-ah boys! that is an ideal holiday for a politician. Most people think of a tanker as a dirty old tub. It is nothing of the sort. The food is excellent, and the sleeping accommodations as good as on any liner...
George Ade, humorist (Fables in Slang), rose dripping from his bath tub to answer his telephone at his summer home near Brook, Ind. He skidded, crashed, skittered down the stairs, broke his left...
...Santa Cruz, Calif., one Amandus J. Paulsen, paralysed in legs and hands, cut his throat, lay in a tub full of water, turned on the gas. He was found and taken to a hospital, awoke to find he had recovered from his paralysis...