Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Before you joined the Army you were a member of a family of closely related individuals . . . shared the same dining room, the same bathroom. . . . You learned that to get along well with other members of your family you must have consideration for them. . . . You have the same obligations in the Army. . . . Several hundred may have to live together . . . eat in the same mess hall, use the same bathhouse or latrine, bunk together, work together and play together...
...fictional sisters from Columbus, Ohio move into a characteristic Greenwich Village mare's nest-a furnished, one-room, basement apartment (with partitioned bathroom) suggesting a cross between a Gothic crypt and a rummage sale...
...Forbes's early interviews was with a member of the Japanese Imperial Family. The place: a hotel bathroom in Durban, S. Africa, with His Highness...
Mounting waters poured out of the bathroom door, down the hall, and into adjoining rooms, soaking rugs and floating low furniture. Before McNair could be persuaded to lift his feet from the choked drain, three rooms had been inundated...
...pitch [until you] find the bowl strongly reinforcing your voice tone. . . . An entire room, especially a small one, can some times be made to resonate in this way." Theory: different substances have different periods of natural vibration; when the voice finds them, they vibrate in sympathy. Men make better bathroom thrushes than women because modern plumbing is out of phase with higher-pitched voices...