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...strokes on a cow-bell. When Falstaff is smuggled out in the laundry basket, the wives have to sidle along together to hide Falstaff's enormous hat from the jealous eyes of Ford. After Falstaff has drunk some sack, he is still conveniently soaking his legs in a tub of hot water, so that he gets an extra laugh by gesturing to the tub as he exclaims, "Take away these chalices...
This means that the more active, tub-thumping aspects of the Program will be halted while a reduced staff of workers set out quietly to enlist support from very wealthy individuals and very large corporations...
...Farm. Next morning he had a long soak in a hot tub, did not leave his suite until noon. Then Eisenhower and Churchill drove out through the blazing red azaleas of the National Arboretum to Walter Reed Army Hospital to visit former Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, gravely ill following two strokes, and former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. When Eisenhower pointed to an Eisenhower portrait of Churchill hanging on the wall of the presidential suite (occupied by Dulles), Old Painter Churchill said, "Very good, very good." Dulles asked Churchill to autograph a one-volume abridged copy...
...Navy hospital not long ago a 31-year-old chief petty officer suddenly broke off a casual conversation with a nine-year-old girl, grabbed the child by the throat, choked her and held her under water in a nearby tub until she was dead. Charged with murder, he at first denied the crime with such apparent sincerity that he fooled a lie detector. Later, remorseful, he confessed, but insisted that he could not remember the beginning of the attack, had just "suddenly discovered himself" strangling the girl...
...hours later, all was ready. The bathers were in the tub, and a crowd of admirers was pressed around Photographer Launois. Suddenly the door was pulled open, and an old man, shouting fiercely, ordered him to take down his equipment. "He was gesturing wildly," reported Launois, "and barking in the old samurai style which I had only heard in the movies before." The village chief tried to convince the old man that Launois' motives were dignified, but he had no success. Finally, when the bathers became frightened by the commotion and departed for home, the old man himself undressed...