Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Hearst, Rothermere collected objects of art and stored them away. Like Hearst he was a patriotic tub-thumper, a violent Red-baiter. He lived like a maharaja, traveled with an entourage of editors, friends, servants, women. He was lavish with money, but was never the resourceful editor Northcliffe had been...
...Portico of Zeus haunted by Socrates, the Temple of the Mother of the Gods where the city records were kept and in the courtyard of which Diogenes lived in a tub, a Temple of Apollo, a main thorough fare 30 feet wide leading to the Acropolis...
...Forbes's early interviews was with a member of the Japanese Imperial Family. The place: a hotel bathroom in Durban, S. Africa, with His Highness in the tub...
...Magician Ching Ling Foo had a trick, never duplicated, in which with two flicks of his robe he produced: 1) a container, garbage-can size, filled with milk; 2) a metal tub containing a dozen live ducks...
...plot, which you may remember from Miss Sharp's "The Nutmeg Tree," is a set-up for the extravaganza which Miss George dotes on. It opens with her in a bath tub, selling a lot of junk to a pawn broker who stands outside the door. It ends with Miss George, as Sir William's wife, claiming the title of "Lady," rarely associated with her name before. In between Miss George returns to her daughter, whom she hasn't seen since she was three and finds her a prig and just as stuffy and sure of herself as the rest...