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Word: shower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to have a high time here Tuesday evening. Sister Jean is going to give me a grocery shower. Wednesday afternoon Helen Manning is having a bridge tea for me at the Hartford Golf Club. And on Thursday luncheon, bridge and a shower at the golf club again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mother-in-Law Approves | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Wood, power-boater, said he had ordered a $175,000 aerial yacht, to be built by Dornier. It will have a 24-passenger capacity, with staterooms, shower baths, an electric refrigerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

From the Polish border the tourists had come in a special train of mahogany-trimmed sleeping cars complete with electric fans and shower baths, relics of Imperial Russia. Impressed with the attentions of the Russian conductor, Heiress Bauer-offered him a small gratuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Ninety & Nine | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Espinosa had just finished his fourth and final round in the National Open Championship. He was getting ready to take a shower. He had holed a 75, for a total of 294. That was two strokes more than Walter Hagen had predicted would win the tournament this year. It was only one stroke more than Robert Tyre Jones Jr. had predicted would win. Somewhere near the last hole, Espinosa knew, Jones was finishing out his own final round. Jones had been four strokes under Espinosa at lunchtime. For Espinosa to remain in the lead for the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: National Open | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Your report on the row at Des Moines Uni-versity contained more than one error. The shower you mentioned was limited to stones and eggs, but what eggs! Many of them hatched as they sailed through business office windows at Dr. T. T. Shields, University board president, and Miss Edith Rebman, board secretary. (Not treasurer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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