Word: checkroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from their premises, no longer turn them away. Arriving at New York's 21 last month, Comedienne Judy Carne of Laugh-In well knew that her tunic-topped pants suit was unacceptable. With a photographer recording the scene, Judy thereupon slipped off her pants, left them at the checkroom, and stalked past the maitre d' suitably dressed in her tunic only-in fact, the miniest of miniskirts. Next day the restaurant stopped barring pants...
...remove kitchen utensils, brooms, linoleum and bedding from one tidy row house, with a vase of flowers in the window, in a "council housing estate" (public housing project) several miles east of Manchester. Last month police turned up a suitcase containing a scrambled skein of recording tapes in the checkroom of a Manchester railway station, played the tapes at a BBC studio. On them were eerie sounds not unlike the voice of a terrified child...