Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enforce such orders, WPB's Compliance Section and Requisitioning Branch got tougher too. Compliance accused Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners) of misusing some 350,000 lb. of secondary aluminum, forbade it to touch any aluminum for three months. Requisitioning seized 78,000 lb. of copper sheet from a bathroom-supply dealer named Katz, who had refused to sell it to Metals Reserve. Washington was getting too small for Requisitioning's expanding Ogpu; its boss, Ernie Tupper, went to Manhattan, looked at space in the Empire State Building...
...dishing out a series of pretentious pictures which ran an enticing gamut from sex (Male and Female) and high living (Affairs of Anatol) to orgiastic uplift (The Ten Commandments). They earned him the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and a gold medal from the bathtub industry (for making cinemagoers bathroom-conscious...
...Salsette's remarks about U.S. food & drink are courteous but not startlingly novel; he has some very nice things to say, however, for the complicated, charming toy, his kitchenette, and he manages to make the luxuries of a U.S. bathroom, for the first time, worthy of literature...
...this was what they had predicted when Chamberlain came back from Munich," but "they were numbed." They were shattered when "President Roosevelt recognized Franco the moment Madrid fell-like a man who has taken a physic, as Canby said, and can't wait to get to the bathroom...
...fear by learning to pick up live rattlers with a forked tube. Since Cross Creek was written, the man who showed her how has since been bitten twice by moccasins, once by a rattler. Mrs. Rawlings' herpetological heroism reached the point where she killed a moccasin in her bathroom with a Sears Roebuck catalogue...