Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pablo Picasso, 62, was well and busy in his Rue Saint Augustin studio. Now almost white-haired, he had a new bathroom, a new six-months-old son. He had refused to sell to Germans personally. Because Hitler considers Picasso's work degenerate, Germans who had bought Picassos from dealers dared not do so openly...
Uncle Eustace also had a few cheering words on the subject of Good People. "Progress . . . backwards and downwards," he called their vagaries. Then he rushed off to get some bicarbonate for the pain in his heart. Next morning the servants found Uncle Eustace dead on the bathroom floor...
...late Christian R. Holmes, on famed Waikiki Beach. The highway to the house was blocked to traffic, surrounded with barbed wire and guarded by platoons of marines. At the cream stucco mansion, until recently a rest house for Navy aviators, the President had a spacious, 50-foot bedroom ; the bathroom of Presidential aide Sam Rosenman had a sunken tile tub big enough to swim in. The Commander in Chief set up military headquarters on a sundeck overlooking Waikiki's long, rolling surf...
...Port. In Belmont, Calif., a dog named Pando, trapped in a burning house, scurried to the bathroom, plunged into the toilet bowl, was found safe & sound after the house had burned down...
...whether the dilapidated alley home was a fit place for a returning Congressional Medal of Honor winner. (City officials had first offered a new apartment, then engaged a $55-a-day suite at the William Penn Hotel when they learned that the Kelly home had no electric lights, no bathroom plumbing and little paint.) Said Kelly: "What's good enough for Mom is good enough...