Word: bathroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kick. So I let them. They were happier than they had been for years. I figured there'd be lots of fights. But there weren't any." One of his patients, who had been in constant restraint for eight years, is now in charge of a ward bathroom and is proud of his responsibilities...
...exterior, like a self-contained house within a house. Talking it over with congressional committeemen, Harry Truman remembered how he had first noticed signs of trouble when "the big, fat butler brought me my breakfast one morning and the floor shook." What finally convinced him was the day the bathroom floor sagged perilously and he imagined himself plummeting through the floor, bathtub and all, during a reception in the Blue Room...
...repeatedly arrested for housebreaking and petty crimes, was thrice hustled off to reform schools. But three years ago in Montreal, he discovered that it was just as easy to steal a fortune-he coolly invaded the home of an aged gold-mine heiress, pushed her in a bathroom, carried off $75,000 worth of jewels...
...Waters never had her subordinates take an oath of office. One inmate had possessed a key in violation of the law, although testimony brought out the fact that she was working in apart of the institution where she needed the key in order to got into the bathroom. But the Commissioner evidently felt that he did have "just cause" for dismissing Dr. Van Waters. At the end of the hearing, he dropped only a few of his charges...
...Fragoso Carmona, a 79-year-old general and pompous figurehead. The legend on the poster was: "Dois homens uma só obra"-two men with one work. Opponents of the regime had crossed out the a in uma, which changed the meaning: two men, one goes to the bathroom...