Word: closets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water-closet scandal was just one splash in a whirlpool of trouble which recently engulfed husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes, who eight years ago became the biggest political frog in Waterbury. Mayor of Waterbury, he also became Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and, though honest old Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, onetime dean of Yale's Graduate School, was too spry ever to let him get his hand on the highest State controls, he presided over the Senate in a style which, his accusers said, was lucrative as well as lordly...
When some people came along with a high-powered new water closet,* Lieutenant Governor Hayes took an interest in the company and presided over sessions at which a bill calling for such equipment in all public places was passed. Mr. Hayes could easily see the merit of the fixture which, when a user rises, snaps its seat back into a recess, scours it with live steam and a scrubbing brush, cools it with a jet of water, snaps it out again for the next patron...
...interests of research, and purely for the satisfaction of intellectual curiosity, fifteen men in graduate English are unearthing closet dramas of dubious purity, in fortnightly readings in the Widener Poetry Room...
...them, sharp-cared, heard a soda cracker acting up in the closet where the icebox was placed. Skeptical, he approached the door cantiously. The "causa causans" was a tiny bluishgrey animal, nibbling. Lie sat down on the floor, fascinated, and watched...
...someone reading "Moby Dick" is played very softly over a loudspeaker, was unsuccessfully tried with some local talent the other day. "Children are so used to radios now that they didn't pay any attention," Dr. Dyk explained yesterday. "I think I'll try putting it in the closet...