Word: bath
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...this straight, Mr. Editor-there is no "built-in crankiness" in the Williamsburg. She was designed by three of the best shipbuilders this country ever produced: John Burkhardt and James Hunter of the Bethlehem Ship Building Co., and William S. Newell of the Bath Iron Works [he built her]. She came out as the Aras and [her original owner, Hugh Chisholm] took her around the world...
...almost as if the U.S. woman just doesn't care enough. Take a Frenchwoman, going out for the evening. "She will have thought for hours about her entrance. If she is tired, she is simply 'not at home' all day . . . She may take a 'shade bath' (chaise longue, darkened room, eyepads) for two hours . . . Inevitably, a trip to the hairdressers . . . She knows her dress. If it is a line that stands better than it sits, she will spend the evening standing-and standing in a particular posture . . . Say what you will, the effect...
...love and affection ... I'd always have dinner ready for her when she got home. I'd take off her shoes and bring her her slippers and fix her a drink. I pressed her dresses when her maid wasn't here. I'd draw her bath and give her massages. I felt it was a privilege to do things for her. She'd say, 'Well, what do you want? You're adequately fed and clothed.' I didn't want money. I wanted love, but she hasn't time...
...propped up in a wheelchair with a brush strapped to his arthritic fingers. Last week Manhattan gallerygoers could see the result of those last pain-racked hours: healthy, big-hipped servant girls looking as flushed and happy as if they had just stepped out of a steam bath...
Prescription. In Albuquerque, Refugio Salindo, charged with possession of $2,000 worth of marijuana, explained to the court that he used the stuff only "to sprinkle in my bath water because I heard it was good for my arthritis...