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...latter to become a Self-Made Man and town-builder back in Ireland, as broad Kevin Shannon, his father, had been in the U. S. How might that be? By the same token that Gerald Shannon chances to hang his shoes on the chandelier and trousers in the tub, and to take a circus troupe to a senator's party, and to sing Rocked in the Cradle with a freight-yard detective, and to be very unwell on a mule-ship. Author Connell simply wants his hero to do those things and the hero does them with the utmost...
...know your business around here, and its a mighty complicated one. First you break your back talking Jupiter or that Venus for a ride, and the next minute you have to give some Chinese jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...
...Spanish war, many seaside cities became frightened and asked for naval protection. One city was so active in its demands that the Secretary dug up, almost literally, one of the old monitors, leaky and water-logged, and had it towed to the harbor in question. Here the old tub remained, in momentary danger of sinking but the citizens were content...
...theatre?a party at which, according to some of the 500-odd "nighthawks" present, Mr. Carroll had filled a wheeled bathtub with champagne made zestier by having a nubile nymph in Carroll's pay (Chorine Joyce Hawley) strip off her chemise and sit naked in the tub as the drinkers dipped their swirling glasses...
...reader, knowing Mr. Carroll's intimate life as well as he does himself, can not avoid some semblance of pity for his plight. Bathtubs are such an integral part of existence that one rarely associates wrong-doing with their shiny enamel. Indeed young America is apt to consider a tub synonymous with parental urging to a goodly scrubbing. Perjury regarding neck and cars is a common crime often condoned...