Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lepers with purplish, corrugated, lion-like faces stroll in the sunshine or pick fruit from the heavy fig trees; others with faces eaten away into white, featureless masks slap through the corridors in their bedroom slippers. Men with ulcerated feet pedal bicycles up & down the platforms, sometimes waving a bandaged, fingerless hand at their friends, or stopping at the recreation hall to play poker. On fair days some of the patients play golf, tennis or baseball.The half-dozen children go to a one-room school, and the women-who are far outnumbered by the men-spend most of their time...
...outdone, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. announced that its "elastic Vinylite" (vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate resins) was being made into chemically inert beer pipes, men's shoes, babies' diapers, bedroom slippers, shower curtains, aprons, waterproof sheeting, women's hats, chair covers, card-table covers, insulation...
...Caro house. All but one (a living-room extension) have individual listings and numbers in the phone books. Friends acquainted with the phoneman's habits can, by calling Caro, Mich., 583, catch him in Bathroom No. 3. A request for 584 will connect the caller with the Southwest Bedroom; 592 with the Furnace Room; 597 with the Maid's Quarters, and 590 with both ends of the Dining-Room Table. Despite this room-to-room hookup, there is a flaw in the service. If Mr. Moore were in his Den (589) and a friend called...
...less unorthodox is Phoneman Moore's midsummer method of taking a swim before breakfast. Stepping onto a balcony outside his second-floor bedroom window, he presses a button. From a swimming pool in the yard a model airplane climbs to him on cables. Sitting on a trapeze slung from the undercarriage, he presses another button, the plane heads for the pool. Mr. Moore lets go in time to flop into the water. On the journey back he just hangs on until the plane deposits him on the balcony again...
...process, and he had finally succeeded. Before he left his one-story Colonial laboratory on Philadelphia's Main Line his process was in use in three big mirror plants (Nurre; Binswanger & Co.; Hires Turner), and he had visions of some day putting a full-length mirror on every bedroom door...