Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lush décors ("The bathroom was a miracle of coral, blue, and jade green, with a tub of flush-pink marble. There was also an open fireplace and a small concealed refrigerator for keeping cold her lotions and the Guinness's Stout. . . . Mirrored closets, glass-enclosed shower, a couple of low overstuffed slipper chairs in coral satin, two washbasins, and a telephone. . . . Her husband's eyes searched the magnificence. 'Where...
...night you can sleep in an A-deck suite whose decorations may include peach glass and python-skin fabrics. . . . You open the bathroom door by a plastic composition knob that is warm to the touch. . . . In one ballroom indirect colored lights change automatically with varying tunes of the dance orchestra...
...order to preserve permanent waves. More than a quarter of Sheffield's school children had skin diseases (most common: the itch). Many children had never been fed a hot meal, never used forks or spoons. Bed-wetting was common. Since many of the children had never seen a bathroom, they used the hearth or any convenient corner of a room instead...
...bathroom are photographs of old prize fighters, wrestlers, race horses. The house is filled with old English hunting prints of horses and hounds...
Southern oratory is not very impressive to David L. Cohn. Born in Mississippi, an alumnus of the Universities of Virginia and Yale, Cohn has explored the purlieus of American love "from living room, bedroom, and bathroom" to lovelorn columns and women's magazines. And he has reached the most jaundiced conclusions...