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...third century B.C., a Greek mathematician named Archimedes jumped from his bath, rushed home naked and dripping, shouting "Eureka, eureka!" He had just discovered an important physical principle. In 1937 A.D., a German-Jewish mathematician named Samuel Isaac Krieger, who was taking a mineral bath near Buffalo, N. Y., suddenly leaped out, rushed naked into the adjoining room, began to scribble figures. He thought he had discovered something too: a solution to the equation given in Fermat's last theorem...
...Bachelors need not apply. . . . Married men applying for Nei-sans will have to obtain consent of their wives. Foreigners who employ Nei-sans will be entitled to one bath a week in any of the undermentioned Bath Houses in Hongkew* free of charge. Foreign ladies can apply for Japanese male masseurs...
...heard about the private bathroom in blue marble in Mr. Ickes' office," snorted Joe Bailey, "but I've never seen it and I wouldn't go so far as to say that Mr. Ickes takes a bath." With an angry gesture he raised his arm and wham, flung the book to the floor. In a twinkling, Oklahoma Democrat Elmer Thomas scrambled over to pick it up, lay it gently on a desk. At this point tobacco-chewing Cotton Ed Smith, who had no doubt been restrained by his colleagues from giving his standard anti-lynching argument on behalf of Southern...
...first item declared that His Majesty had been graciously pleased to elevate Sir Robert to the title of Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. The second announced that the Prime Minister had caused to be created for Sir Robert the new post of Chief Adviser to the Foreign Office. His duties, according to this unusual official announcement, will be "advising the Secretary of State [Anthony Eden] upon all major questions of policy concerning foreign affairs . . . and representing the Foreign Office on any occasions, whether at home or abroad...
...accomplished actors who perform the thwacking horseplay in fine style. As the ruddy little Crispin who becomes Lord Mayor of London, Whitford Kane personifies all the industry, sanity and lustiness of a jolly beefeater. Marian Warring-Manley as his good wife, Margery, waddles it like all the Wives of Bath and Mistress Quicklys who have dedicated their big bosoms and broad buttocks to England's earthy spirit...