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Word: bathroomed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town. At 10 o'clock Stewart dragged Nelson home drunk. The others' faces went grim; they reached for their pistols. They sat Nelson up on a sofa, beat his head with butt and barrel. Stewart, sick at his stomach with fear, slipped to the bathroom, jumped out the window, ran away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Good Night's Sleep | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...infected person should especially avoid contact with others. Dr. Bock warned. "Stay away from lecture halls, laboratories movies, etc., and make judicious use of your bandkerchiefs when sneezing and coughing, wherever you are if you share a bathroom with others, isolate your own toilet equipment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOCK FEARS MORE COLDS THIS WINTER | 10/22/1942 | See Source »

Judge Hull, for example, compares the plight of the U.S. with a one-ocean navy to the embarrassment of a man with a shirt so short that when he pulls it down in front it exposes him behind, and vice versa. It was in a White House bathroom, the authors note gleefully, that Prime Minister Winston Churchill was sold the phrase "United Nations" by President Roosevelt. The President had fixed on it in bed before breakfast, shouted it through the bathroom door. The two biggest guns of democracy are now on such good terms that they can "say anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. President, Buzz, et al. | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...years Vag had dropped into Mem Hall for various official reasons, but this was something new. After three centuries of Puritanical restraint, the College was using the Gothic barn with the bathroom-floor roof for strictly social ends. Half-horrified and half-pleased, Vag could see tomorrow's headlines in the Globe: HARVARD SUBSIDIZES ROMANCE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...sponge. "I am old-fashioned," she explained. "Everybody else uses a washcloth, but I like a sponge for my bath." She moved on to the furniture store. "Good morning, Your Majesty," said the furniture-store man. The Queen priced linoleum, bought an inexpensive grade. It was for the bathroom floor; her granddaughters had been splashing it with water. She moved on to the grocer's. "Good morning, Madam," said the grocer. The Queen bought some soap and some washing flakes. Then she departed as she had come, in a big armored car, a carload of guards in front, another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Shopper for Essentials | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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