Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are other pleasant people in Three to Make Ready, notably expertly exuberant Dancer Harold Lang (Fancy Free) and wryly imperious, tonily shrill Brenda Forbes, a kind of Class B Lillie. But otherwise, Three to Make Ready is a very wet box of matches-a bathroom sketch whose humor is even more out of date than the plumbing, an interminable Sad Sack todo, a facile take-off on Oklahoma!, comments by a grimly recurrent radio comic named Arthur Godfrey. Everything considered, Three to Make Ready would have done far better to confine itself to Bolger and a backdrop...
...hospitably kicked a path through the dog bones and chicken manure. Author MacDonald staggered; her nose had been dealt "a stinging blow by the outhouse lurking doorless and unlovely" near the porch. Once she ventured to wonder why the Kettles, who had a good stream, did not install a bathroom. Maw Kettle was incensed: "And have every sonofabitch that has to go, traipsin' through my parlor? When we start spendin' money like drunken sailors, it won't be for no lah-de-dah toilet...
Good Ground. In Burlington, Iowa, a renovated bathroom's walls and ceiling luxuriantly sprouted wheat. The cause: wheat grain had got mixed up in the plaster...
...backgrounds include a country living room of modern times, with popular magazines and local newspapers spread around on the tables, a bathroom of the 1870's, and an old barn. One of the most interesting sets is a double one showing the scene of a shooting as it would look immediately after the crime, and another picturization of it after well-meaning friends had "tidied things...
Contrary to some rumors, no Quonset huts, Army barracks, or trailers are included in the units to be sent here. Each six-family dwelling includes four two-bedroom suites, and two three-bedroom apartments. The kitchenette is located at one end of the living room, and the bathroom boasts a shower...