Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London alone, seven families each day become officially homeless, and the rate is rising. Most often the victims are young couples with several children. Landlords can rent single rooms most profitably to childless tenants, and even for a dingy, three-room basement apartment without private bath or kitchen can usually get far more than a working-class family can afford: up to $20 a week in a country where the average weekly wage is $42. For a London scrap-metal dealer and his pregnant wife, "home" after working hours is a three-ton truck. A common racket for landlords...
...When the groom takes the bride back home to meet the folks, she makes all the predictable mistakes: wears her shoes in the house, interrupts when a man is talking, steps into a car before her husband, squeals when a male friend of the family attempts to share her bath. Back in Washington again, her husband works hard to avert war, and when it comes he orders his wife to stay in the U.S. with their daughter. She gravely refuses, and the rest of the picture describes what life was like in wartime Japan for a sweet young thing from...
...after day (which amounts to every ten minutes in the film) they bring him his shirts. The implication is that he changes his linen in front of them after he finishes working up a sweat bending them to his will. All this leaves you wanting to take a bath...
...rent of $110 would cover an apartment including living-dining room, kitchen bath, and one bedroom. The questionnaire results indicated that most of the units in the dormitories will be of this type, rather than those with two and three bedrooms or "efficiency apartments" with only a single main room and a bathroom...
Several hundred yards to the west, the excavators have begun to expose a Late Roman bath with bright, tapestry-like mosaics. The bath's heating system once conducted hot air under the floors and within the walls. The mosaic floor, carefully consolidated and lifted by a Turkish expert with the Harvard-Cornell expedition, will be placed on public view in the Museum at Manisa...