Word: bin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basement of Peabody Museum is located a "dust bin", whose area is half that of the ordinary House study room and whose depth is approximately three feet. In this sand-filled bin are buried skeleton surrounded by appropriate objects (pieces of pottery, etc.) Students in Anthropology 15, Field Methods in Anthropology, go digging for the hidden objects to gain practice in field work. The course is omitted this year...
Several legends center about the dust bin. Several years ago students were somewhat amazed to find two small gin bottles near the surface. Further excavation revealed a curiously posed woman's skeleton ensconced in the midst of larger empty gin bottles...
...contraption which, since Factor's speciality is "color harmony guidance," was supposed to show the slightest color deviation in the subject. There was a contrivance intended to calibrate facial contours minutely. Giant rollers ground grease paint to remove the tiniest speck of granular imperfections. From "the largest powder bin in the world" the powder was meticulously sifted through silk gauze by means of an electrical shimmy appliance. Guests beheld, in glass cases, the raw materials of cosmetics, labeled in spurious Latin. They browsed in the Max Factor Research Library in which there are not only bound volumes...
...amused, the management let him alone until he started painting the floor with shoe polish. At the police station, he pulled plugs out of the signal switchboard, nearly wrecked the teletype machine, dined on cheese, jelly sandwiches and milk, went to sleep, awoke and prowled in the basement coal bin, found a sleeping Negro there, kicked him in the face, refused a bath. At the New York Foundling Hospital, nurses agreed he was the dirtiest child they had ever seen, bathed...
Best that Trustee Armstrong could do in the way of witnesses was to call his own daughter, Mary Grace, who blithely contradicted her classmates, blamed Ward Van De Bogart for putting the flag in the coal bin...