Word: bathtub
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Journalism has produced few more plausible hoaxes than H. L. Mencken's famed essay on the history of the U.S. bathtub. Mencken's yarn explains how a Cincinnati grain merchant named Adam Thompson caused the first tub to be constructed of sheet lead and Nicaragua mahogany back in 1842, how he built a pump with which a team of six Negroes lifted water into a tank in his house, how he ran a heating pipe through his chimney, and finally took the first modern bath...
...After years of listening to a tuneless whistling sound his wife made whenever she wished to taunt him, Emile Scheermaeker. a 52-year-old Woonsocket. R.I. machinist, could stand no more. Raging like a wild beast, he smashed her head with a clawhammer, ran the bathtub full of water, and held her under until he was sure that she was dead...
...Zest. Procter & Gamble began test sales of Zest, a soap which holds the dirt and grime in suspension in the water, doesn't leave a ring around the bathtub. P. & G. claims Zest will produce suds even in salt water. Price: approximately 15? a cake...
Dreaming up new ideas in the bathtub, and sketching them out on the backs of envelopes during his frequent preaching trips, LeTourneau got set for the peacetime construction boom. But he was in too much of a hurry. He installed new transmissions, differentials and drives in his equipment, put the new machines on the market before all the bugs had been removed. The company went $6,000,000 in the red. For a time, LeTourneau spent $100,000 a month merely servicing machinery that had broken down. But at length he perfected his new devices, and dug his way into...
...Anybody Seen My Gal is set in what is referred to as the Roaring Twenties, an era when, to judge from this picture, flappers in short skirts and college men in raccoon coats did little else but pour down bathtub gin, read Elinor Glyn's It, dance the Charleston, and indulge in such bon mots as "hot diggity," "the cat's meow" and "skiddoo." The result is a thoroughly lightweight but agreeably lighthearted little taffy pull in Technicolor. Surrounding Multimillionaire Coburn are a number of pleasant young people, including Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Gigi Perreau and an enthusiastic...