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Branding showers as "unclean, unsanitary, and unhealthful," Rost claims that he had tried the swimming pool, and even a dip in the cool crystal-clear waters of the Charles as a substitute for an old-fashioned bath, but was satisfied with neither. "Just bring on those Mount Holyoke girls," Rost boasted...
...evils. If they gave the Egyptians their tooth for a tooth and bombed Rome, they might precipitate mass raids on panicky Cairo. If they did not bomb Rome, they might keep Cairo running smoothly as center of their Middle Eastern campaigns but British prestige would suffer a further dip in Islam's eyes...
Irene (of Bullock's-Wilshire, with Greer the leading West Coast designer for the custom trade): slim, slit skirts, the back dip, rounded shoulders, deeper armholes...
...crow was rowing with beautiful precision. Those who watch it from launches are hard pressed-to find anything about which to quibble, although Tom Bolles can generally find something which doesn't please him. Eight oars hit the water outboard with chronological precision, and following a powerful pull-through, dip cat with scarcely a splash, all leaving the water at exactly the same moment. Inboard the crew is not quite as balanced, but what few faults there are seem to counteract each other, and the shell's run, even at very high strokes, has been the envy...
Summer and winter, old Ajax takes a few days off to spend at his log cabin in the Michigan woods. There he goes fishing makes hot cakes for his companions, in winter still occasionally chops a hole in the ice to take a dip...