Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nerves, and an R.A.F. doctor gave her sodium amytal as a sedative. Shortly after 9 o'clock, she went into the rooms where her two sons, Darryl John, 2½, and Edmund, 4, lay sleeping. Later, the wing commander and his wife found her standing in the bathroom, clad in a sarong, with her slashed wrists bleeding into the bathtub. "I have planned it a long time," said Mrs. Parsons. "If one of us went, the other would not live. I have killed my children. We loved him so much, and you know how much he loved...
...little voice," has an almost coyly commonplace explanation for his success: "Every man who sees one of my movies, or who listens to my records, or who hears me on the radio, believes firmly that he sings as well as I do, especially when he's in the bathroom shower...
...chief witness at the trial, and his evidence helped send Evans to the gallows. Last December Mrs. Christie disappeared. No one in the Notting Hill neighborhood paid much attention. Later, after Christie moved away, a new tenant found a woman's leg behind some wallpaper in the bathroom (TIME, April 16). A police search uncovered the trussed and strangled bodies of three women hidden in a sealed closet, another under the floorboards, the remains of at least two others in a buried garbage can in the backyard. The dead woman under the floorboards was Ethel Christie...
...Kindelberger answered an ad of Glenn L. Martin Co., landed a job as draftsman at $27.50 a week. For months, he worked in his old uniforms because he could not afford to buy civilian clothing, augmented his salary by teaching aviation classes , at night, developing photos in a bathroom and writing for Popular Mechanics (at $3 to $5 an article). Raised to $32 a week in 1919, he married his childhood sweetheart, Thelma Knarr. (She divorced him in 1945, and Kindelberger is now married to Helen Allen, a onetime model...
...start, Noyes flattened the top of the bubble for better looks, then sliced out big, 16-ft.-wide openings serving as both windows and doors. Inside, Noyes put a central core with heating plant, bathroom, kitchenette and storage closet, divided the remaining space into a roomy living-dining area on one side, two bedrooms on the other. For large families, says Noyes, "you can just blow another bubble and connect it with a breezeway...