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...long hike ahead of them, set out over hill and dale, under fences, over bridges, through meadows, until finally, faint from fatigue, they float gently downstream in a skiff. Having recovered strength, the two hike back to the house, where unencumbered by clothes, they hop happily into the tub. Luck being with the lovers, neither the husband nor the ex-lover hear all the splashing and the two spend what is left of the night together. Morning finds the tired but happy couple stealing away from the house together, observed in their joy by a lone white work-horse...

Author: By M. Armstrong, | Title: The Lovers | 1/21/1960 | See Source »

...best.") Under the 52-year-old Ivanov and 45-year-old Kiril Kondrashin. one of Russia's most active guest conductors, the 106-man Moscow symphony displayed some solid virtues and some marked weaknesses. The Russians attacked their Tchaikovsky less fiercely than many U.S. orchestras, and the old tub thumpers emerged at times with a lacy lightness lost in many a U.S. concert hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mission from Moscow | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

Like the characters in Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, we're merely changing our garb to suit the spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

Josiah's Puritanical training started right at the cradle. His widowed mother, fearful of "hurtful indulgence," would rouse him from slumber and dip him three times in a tub of frigid water. At the tender age of six, he entered Phillips Academy in Andover, probably since his grandfather had founded it. His academic training consisted of memorizing hymns, Greek and Latin grammar, and attending sermons. Although Quincy described the Puritan restrictions as "wearisome and irksome," he learned them well; he remained a teetotaler and habitually rose...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Josiah Quincy and His School for 'Gentlemen' | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Revive in your own house the lost art of romance and take a bath with your husband . . . Step daintily into the bubble-filled tub. Mon Dieu, this is no time to bend over . . . Don't offer to his horrified eyes the ungainly sight of a bare bottom that will only remind him of a blimp struggling through a storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Voice from the Sewer | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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