Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cozy, semi-permanent quarters for 16 to 18 men-in only eight hours. Pacific Huts' founders took about that much time to slap their company together last year. Its president, an ex-Buick salesman, Frank Hobbs, was then head of the Colotyle Corp. (a wallboard manufacturer now making bathroom and shower assemblies for Henry Kaiser); its vice president, George K. Comstock, owned a Seattle neon-sign business...
Death & Decency. Each morning the Mahatma (Great Soul) was wheeled on his bed to a palace bathroom to be shaved and washed. He was massaged twice daily, had mud packs placed on his head. He was given occasional enemas. At the age of 74, in a land where life expectancy is only 27, Gandhi after twelve days of his intended 21-day fast was sinking rapidly. Said an Indian physician, Dr. B. C. Roy: "Only a miracle" could see him through. During the first days he took only citrus juice and water. Midway through his ordeal the act of drinking...
Most doubted that the doctor shortage was yet severe enough to require an increase in home medication. Some laid increased sales to the rise in buying power. But no one knew yet whether people were dosing themselves more or only stocking their bathroom shelves...
Horseshoe-Nail Gayle. In Newington, Conn., six-year-old Gayle Grant got out of bed for a drink of water, turned on a bathroom faucet, couldn't turn it off, waded to the telephone, wept into it incoherently, alarmed the operator, who turned in a fire alarm. The siren sounded a raid alert instead, just as a factory whistle blew. The countryside was aroused; the state prison gathered itself for an emergency; air wardens by the hundreds scurried to their posts...
...York gorilla, being forcibly fed in order to tell what it felt like. For McCall's Magazine she went (o Europe, interviewed the American-born Duchess of Marlborough in her fabulous Blenheim Palace. Said the Duchess: "This may be a palace, but there isn't one decent bathroom in the whole bloody place...