Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hattie Carnegie was a temperamental whirlwind, who loved the glittering world she lived in, doted on poker, slot machines and canasta. Her Fifth Avenue duplex was serenely elegant, from the gold-plated fixtures in her bathroom to the crepe-dechine sheets and mink coverlet on her bed. Lunching at the Pavilion, sweeping into the opera or arriving in Paris, Hattie was always a conversation-stopper. Her domestic life was sometimes hectic: after two brief and capricious marriages, she finally settled down with Major John Zanft, a childhood sweetheart from the East Side. "I've had three husbands," she often...
...announced purpose of the tour is "to discuss the relation of architecture to function" in University buildings, Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, said yesterday. Such questions as whether each room should have a bathroom, and how many common rooms should a House have may be considered, Perkins explained...
Rumors have indicated entries would be abolished. Instead, each floor might contain only single rooms and a common living room for all residents. The private bathroom and the fireplace may also disappear along with several other features of 'gracious living,' one member said...
...guest at a chichi Hollywood hotel stood blinking one recent day at a scratchy note that had just been shoved underneath the door of his suite. "Please don't use the bathroom in the mornings." it read. "You are disturbing the world's greatest actress." He asked the manager what the message meant. It meant, he was informed, that Italy's Anna Magnani had come to Hollywood...
...stubble-bearded Charles Vanel, an ambiguous private detective with the disconcerting habit of turning up in her bedroom at midnight to report his progress. The terrors mount to the satisfying crescendo of a Gothic nightmare as Vera, haunted by predawn whispers, creakings and rustlings, retreats to her own bathroom, finds the tub filled with water and containing the staring body of her drowned husband. She dies of heart failure, and Director Clouzot brings his masterly thriller to a shocker of a conclusion that no moviegoer should learn in advance...