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Word: chintz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...includes many of the functions of a hotel, the Doctors Hospital proposes to emulate the best hotels in its provision for the comforts of the rich, with charges to match their purses. Thus, each of its rooms (it has no wards) has its private bath, its individual refrigerator. Rugs, chintz curtains and pastel-tinted walls give a cozy atmosphere. All beds are of wood. All medical and surgical equipment are of course the most modern and efficient. Patient-guests have at their convenience a barber shop, tailor, florist, public stenographer, telegraph office, newspaper & magazine stand, drugstore, gymnasium, library, solarium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Richest Hospital | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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