Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather than an intruder ("when he becomes socially more mature he will slap the person"); at two he distinguishes between "mine" and "yours," pouts, dawdles; at three he "negotiates reciprocal trade agreements," obediently runs errands; at four he is bossy, tells little lies, "likes to go to the bathroom when others are there to satisfy new curiosities"; at five he is less quarrelsome, chatters at meals, helps baby sister, tells his name and address when he is lost, even plays checkers with policemen who find...
Some of these primitives-the Douglas transport plane, the modern bathroom, gas range, and washing machine-are pretty good, pretty well suited to their purposes. But designers of buildings, says Mr. Teague, still think in terms of cathedrals, designers of cars in terms of carriages. In a well-integrated period, thinks Designer Teague, all art is "applied art," and the finest craftsmen devote themselves to beautifying the things people use in their daily lives...
...began three weeks age when Benjamin A. "Bunny" Barnes '41 received 21 of his namesakes to celebrate his coming of age. The rabbits carefully, selected for their starting color schemes, were released in his bathroom in Winthrop House by an unknown practical jokester...
Before a Senate sub-committee appeared Cathrine Curtis, national director of Women Investors in America Inc., to declare that millions of women would go to jail rather than disclose "their wages or income, their matrimonial adventures, or whether they use their bathroom or privy alone or share it with someone else...
...howdy-do from Uncle Sam Calling, eight-week radio series now planted on 662 U. S. radio stations by the U. S. Census Bureau. Many a censusee does not like the prospect of being asked, and having to answer, a raft of Nosy Parker questions: whether he has a bathroom, a mortgage; where he lived five years ago (for an insight into migrant labor), his race (which most anthropologists say is unanswerable), whether he has been on WPA, CCC, NYA, etc. For the first time in history, the April census will also ask the "amount of money wages or salary...