Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absolutely. His condition improved. Then suddenly the stroke came. At 4 a.m. on Oct. 5, 1919, Mrs. Wilson heard the President calling weakly. She rushed to him and called Dr. Grayson. Mr. Wilson's left leg had crumpled beneath him and he lay on the floor of his bathroom. The doctor eased the President at full length upon a rug and dragged the burden to the bedroom. With Mrs. Wilson's assistance he placed the President upon the bed. Examination showed the unmistakable signs of apoplexy...
...over a hundred British authors, including an original play by Barrie; music specially composed by Dame Ethel Smyth and other great ones; replicas of the royal jewels by Miss Winifred Whiteside, a 19-year-old miniaturist; tiny grand piano, Rolls-Royce car, typewriters, telephones, rugs, tapestries, kitchen utensils, bathroom and plumbing fixtures, heating system, electric elevators, completely appointed wardrobes, golf clubs, guns and foils-everything necessary to royal existence-are there. All is English-made and in the best English taste. A complete royal family of six-inch dolls, representative guest and a corps of servants will inhabit the palace...
...having a "compromising" supper party. Mrs. A catches a bun. Suddenly the whole cast begins arriving. From fire-escapes, closets, bathroom, through sawed panels and from behind couches, uncles, grandfathers, husbands and detectives pop suddenly into being. And such a slamming of doors and banging of windows and cries of " My God, what are you doing here ?" B's fiancee appears in time to render affairs positively catastrophic...
...musical numbers, while "A Night at Yard's", and "Ei Ukhnem" are unforgettably dramatic in their relation of Siavic feeling and character. An Anglo Saxon feels as embarrassed listening to the almost barbaric gypsy songs as if he were impersonating Ring Lardner's "wolf crawling into a bathroom window", but the Russians revel in them with genuine ecstasy and abandon. In "The Sudden Death of a Horse", one's ignorance of the language, which is an astonishingly slight handicap throughout, prevents any understanding of the dialogue, but the action to so vivid and the pantomime so unmistakable that...
Yale had been playing for 12 and 9-10 yrs. on the slocum of don't tackle a man when he catches a punt lest you make him muff it. Those tactics worked for 12 yrs. like a wolf trying to crawl through a bathroom window but finely they turned around and bit them. Will Elihu Yale try those tactics again? Only as an adverb...