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...letter after letter, she rinsed herself in the dirty tub water of her miseries. It so nauseated one erstwhile friend of both Murrys, D. H. Lawrence, that he wrote cruelly to her: "I loathe you. You revolt me stewing in your consumption . . ." Tig instructed Bogey: "You must hit him when you see him. There's nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tig & Bogey | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...girdle ad published in the U.S. last week, the upper left-hand corner showed a cherubic two-year-old girl, buff bare, climbing into a tub. The caption said: "Your derriere's darling . . . when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Venus Cacopyge | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

Clean Getaway. In Phoenix, after William Pilling told police that he got off fairly easily when a burglar stole only $6 and a Stetson hat, he discovered that the thief had also taken a bath, left a ring around the tub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...truth were to be told today, Harvard would probably finish a poor fourth behind Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale in the aggressiveness and enthusiasm of its schoolboy recruiting program. For one thing, Harvard alumni have long been more loyal with their dollars than with the amount of noise put into tub-thumping and attracting of prospective students...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet and Bayley F. Mason, S | Title: Intense Ivy Rivalry for 'Elite' of Applicants Puts Harvard Eyes on Nation-wide Promotion | 6/21/1951 | See Source »

...peyote hassle" has been described by a paleface intruder. Navajos of all ages and both sexes sat around a fire with a crude sand-painting of the moon beside it. While the "peyote priest" fussed with the sand-painting, a tin tub full of water was boiling. Peyote buttons were dumped into it. After they had softened, they were fished out and passed around to be chewed. The liquid was doled out in cups. After that, said the observer, it was "every man for himself." Men hopped up with peyote, he reported, "are likely to grab the closest female, whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Button, Button . . . | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

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