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...books belonging to members of the house are on view in an exhibition now being held in the Kirkland House Library. Among the volumes are Ethridge's "Love in a Tub", published in 1735; Hume's "History of England", published in 1762; and Hawkesworth's "Works of Jonathan Swift., Revised With Notes...
...Washington Navy Yard. He went poking down into her bilge where officers had to use flashlights, emerged with his grey felt hat battered out of shape by low beams. In the centre of the gun-deck President Hoover stopped to gaze at a brassbound barrel marked: GROG TUB. Commander Louis Gulliver explained that from it used to come the sailors' daily ration of a half-pint of strong drink. The President nodded, passed on silently...
...consequence of a birthday party which Producer Carroll gave Banker Edrington that Producer Carroll was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary for perjury in 1927. It was also as a consequence of the birthday party (the producer denied that a girl had sat naked in a tub of wine) that Earl Carroll became a national character...
Moral Future. If the delegates did nothing else, they established a record for speed in international conferences. Within 72 hours after the conference started, the delegates, having approved a paper plug for Germany's leaking tub, adjourned to the royal garden party at Buckingham Palace where flunkies handed them large bowls of fresh raspberries with cream.* World stock exchanges signalled the event by going into a gentle decline...
...said nothing about it. He arrived at Berlin, called on Old Paul von Hindenburg, on Chancellor Brüning, on Foreign Minister Curtius, was solemnly taken to see the Greek sculpture in the Pergamon Museum and lunched on venison and Moselle in a public restaurant on the Wannsee (Tub Lake). Then he departed by Hook of Holland for London, passing en route Ramsay MacDonald and "Uncle Arthur" Henderson on their way to go through much the same performance...