Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photographs show row upon row upon row of white cement workers-homes. The statistics prove that each has a bathroom. More photographs show dozens and scores and hundreds of the 12,000 Bat'a workers, all apparently clean, robust and inclined to athletic sports on Bat'a play-fields. Further statistics prove that Bat'a workpeople can buy as much for their wages at Bat'a Company stores as Ford workpeople can buy at Ford Company stores-although of course Bat'a wages are lower than Ford wages in gold...
...mother if ten dollars would be enough to come in handy if sent to you, and she said 'yes.' Therefore I decided to send you ten dollars which I earned this Summer by painting the piazza roof, washing the muresco off the walls and ceiling of the bathroom, weeding the garden and various other similar jobs. I thought you might be able to buy some extra things...
...water is renewed and two tons of salt are used to make the solution sufficiently saline. In the salt manufacturer's house there is a salt water system, so that the benefits of synthetic ocean bathing may be enjoyed without leaving the privacy of one's bathroom...
...Story. Small town Marry Javlyn arrived at a Chicago rooming house off Diversey Street. He was absorbed immediately into the ways of the big city; tossed carelessly on the bathroom shelf was a wallet stuffed with bigger bills than he had ever seen, and the only identification was Cook County's check for $84.62. The owner, identified by the paunchy landlord, was Abe Wise. This Jew locked his bedroom door, touched his "gat" fondly, but offered Marry the hospitality of excellent bootleg, and introduced Josephine Ruska of the husky voice and dark caressing eyes. Marry fell promptly in love...
...Manhattan apartment house at 570 Park avenue. In the early morning of a day last week, they confused the tenant of the penthouse. British-born. 35-year-old H. Gordon Duval, publisher of The Club-Fellow, society weekly, rose early to tend his shrubs. He intended to open the bathroom door. But he opened the elevator door instead. He fell the length of the shaft, 14 stories, to instant death...