Word: bedpan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book and toss it away. Some place midway between the middle and the last third, Miss Howe begins to search for a soul for Dorothea. She finds it for her--you've guessed it--not in Cambridge, but Out West, among the peepul. Not until Dorothea joins the bedpan brigade in a Boston hospital and follows it up with a train trip (tourist class) to Idaho, does she discover Life...
...paradoxical situation of a "Hahvvahd" man writing the story of a typical draftee resulted from both Stein and Brown's going through the same process of learning and griping themselves. The professional cartoonist served as a bedpan changer in a hospital and the poet-writer as an Army engineer...
Chamber War, a scene of furious activity, in which a billowing nurse is shown attacking three big-bellied doctors with a bedpan, while a skeleton embraces the terrified patient...
...exhibit was also a Saarinen & Eames invention: a chair cast like a piece of sculpture, from a single piece of laminated plywood. Saarinen & Eames's new chair, carefully molded to fit the human form and cushioned with a covering of sponge-rubber, looked something like a fur-lined bedpan on stilts. But sitters found that it made up in rump-appeal what it lacked in looks...