Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back. The book has two title pages, two opening chapters. In fact, to let the secret out, it is two stories. It tells the same incident-a marital quarrel-from the point of view of the husband as well as the wife.* Like "his" and "hers" towels in the bathroom, the notion is apt to be a little obvious and excessively cute. But if the reader can keep from getting dizzy turning the book over, he will still have fun, because behind Author "Virginia Rowans" hides the beard of Edward Everett Tanner III, who, under the pseudonym of Patrick Dennis...
...Only two passions dominate him: laziness and cigarette smoking. He lies on his bed by the hour looking at the wall. Indeed, the only decision Novelist Dutourd puts to his hero in the whole course of this Novel is whether or not to get up and go to the bathroom. Fernand doesn...
...Bathroom Phone. Last week Harry Truman walked from his office to the barbershop of Frank Spina, who served as guidon for Captain Harry of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, in World War I. Truman was especially careful about his haircut; he had an appointment in Chicago next week, and he wanted to look his best...
...spiritual director of the nuns, Canon Peart decides, under the prodding of the local legal shark, to sue for libel and defamation of character - he needs the money to pay for that dry bathroom which was necessary for the dignity of the parish. Suing the Sassenach and his newspaper seems the answer...
...Upstairs Bathroom. Honor Tracy, for her first novel published in the U.S., has written the farce of the year. But Catholic readers, especially those of Irish descent, are warned that they will probably find it also highly scandalous. Patrickstown is all right in its own way-only an hour's jaunt out of Dublin, with good fishing, cozy drinking facilities, its inhabitants (now that Lord Patrickstown, the last of the Protestant gentry, is a convert) sleeping peacefully under the benign but totalitarian rule of Roman Catholic Canon Ignatius Peart. The canon's only worries are the prevalence...