Word: bathroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the loft, the Cohens auctioned off all their winnings except a Nash automobile, a $900 television set, a few pieces of jewelry and a $1,000 merchandise slip from Saks Fifth Avenue. They saw a $1,700 diamond wristwatch go for $550, a $1,000 tile bathroom for $430, a $900 home workshop for $410. When the auctioneer's gavel fell for the last time, the Cohens had taken in about $4,000 in cash from their $28,000 windfall. After lawyer bills, warehouse rentals, auctioneer's commission, taxes and Mrs. Cohen's five...
...trophy worth $210, that Movie Star Ann Sothern collected white Meissen figurines, that Joseph Toth, a Mansfield, Ohio gun collector had 35 fine machine pistols, that Schwab's Drugstore in Beverly Hills, Calif, stocked $200 gold lighters, that the E. L. Doheny home in Los Angeles had gold bathroom fixtures, and that "rich people live in Ten Hills, Baltimore...
...comes from no control at all ... The inhibitory think, without acting, 'and-delude themselves into believing that they are highly civilized types ... All people whose good manners are noticeable are excessively inhibited . . ." Nonetheless, he admits that a few inhibitions, e.g., waiting for the green light and the family bathroom, are all right...
...upper three floors are considerably different from their supporting story, but they are identical to one another. The rooms open onto central T-shaped corridors, which need only be followed past the three-way, full length mirror to the nearest corner for the latest in large scale bathroom facilities. In the center of each floor is the smoking room and adjoining it is a kitchenette for morning coffee and lazy Sunday breakfasts...
Legend has it the President Lowell determined the pattern of windows that he wanted in Lowell House, and then left the architects to fit the rooms in behind as best they could. If a bathroom. came behind a main window, or if a man could not stand up in more than half of his top floor room, it was considered unfortunate but unavoidable...