Word: bathroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Host. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Anna Hagopian sued her landlord for $22,000 because, she complained, he had 1) torn down the kitchen sink, 2) removed her stove, 3) turned off the gas, 4) padlocked her bathroom...
...that everything always went smoothly. To keep the Marquise Cassatti happy, the maítre d'hôtel himself had to fetch live rabbits for the two boa constrictors she kept in her bathroom. Once the management had to insist that the Countess de Salverte move out because her pet lion had grown too big. To survive World War II, the Ritz had to knuckle to such boorish guests as Hermann Göring. It salved its conscience by wheedling more food from the Nazis than it needed, supplying a lower-priced restaurant for Frenchmen around the corner...
...fully armored St. George charged in, precariously perched on a white horse that at first stubbornly refused to face the guest of honor. The cast also included 94 white pigeons which made their entrance on cue, except for six that were found later in the dean's bathroom...
...Chicago landlords were being offered the following "inducements" by apartment hunters: free dental care for life, a refrigerator, a television set, a year's free voice and piano lessons, a set of bathroom fixtures, contact lenses, an outboard motor, $500 worth of interior decorating...
...Myrna Loy) as they suffer the beginning of an average day in their Manhattan apartment. Even for a $15,000 income-grouper, the Blandings apartment seems rather spacious (you could encamp a platoon of homeless veterans in the parlor alone); but the closet space is convincingly niggardly, and the bathroom problem is enough to tempt anyone to the wide open spaces...