Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husband and I both look forward to it tremendously. He reads it to me while I mend; I read it to him if we ever drive anywhere, and we keep the current copy in the bathroom...
Passing Fancy. In Spokane, Wash., Bernice G. Peters, suing for divorce, explained that her husband refused to build a bathroom in their house because "sani tary facilities were something newfangled and wouldn't last." Literary Reflection. In New Westmin ster, B.C., a woman applied to the Director of Vital Statistics for permission to change her name from Dawn Anna Glow to Amber Glow...
...painted by the dog.' The big dog who dashed in and out of the room at high speed certainly looked intelligent enough to paint." Etchings & Guards. " 'But that re minds me,' Picasso said, 'that I don't believe I've shown you my bathroom.' We . . . saw the bathroom and the little engraving room where his press was. I told him that I counted his early Dejeuner des Pauvres among the very best of his etchings. 'I'm glad you like that one,' he said, giving me a quick, searching look...
After You! In Denver, Hyman Meyers, trying to release his two-year-old grandson from a locked bathroom, tore the knob off the door, ran outside, chucked a rock through a window, clambered into the wrong room, climbed out, tossed another brick, made it, tugged off the rest of the knob on the bathroom door, had to be rescued by the police...
...Kansas City and the law. A lover of courtroom jousts, he took all cases. Most celebrated: the famed Bridge Table Murder of 1929. A Mrs. Myrtle Bennett, after a bridge-table argument with her husband resulting from an overbid, shot him dead as he was standing in the bathroom. At the trial, Jim Reed, then 69, wept copiously. His client was acquitted...