Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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Streeter: Beany Gangleshanks and the Tub...
...topics of every day life. The whole world of little intimate human experiences is his field, and no incident is too commonplace to undergo an appealing and entertaining metamorphosis under the touch of his skillful pen. Such homely topics as the Saturday night bath in the old wooden tub, or the quiet pleasures of Christmas in a simple country home, are the subjects that are the favorite of this writer of human interest...
...Sunda tabernacle or a revivalist revival meeting, she might have done so. But she was in Symphony Hall, in Boston, among the cold and dispassionate. Perhaps it is kinder to imagine that she was merely interpreting her feelings on finding that the last piece of soap in the bath-tub had disappeared down the drain-pipe...