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...bathroom is "hopelessly antiquated and inadequate," in the view of Alexander Kira, an architect and Cornell professor who has immersed himself in the subject for 17 years. Indeed, he points out, the Western loo has changed little since the late 19th century, when Thomas Crapper of London patented his flush toilet-and thereby insinuated himself into colloquial English...
...your money/But I know what he really loves you for/It's your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat") from Blonde on Blonde. Irreverence ("Gonna save my money/And rip it up"), ribald allusions ("That big dumb blonde with her wheel gorged") and word play ("One must always flush out one's house/If he doesn't expect to be housing flushes") combine to create a feeling of goodwill about the whole album; you get the feeling that Dylan enjoys writing songs, enjoys playing with The Band, that Dylan he is not as paranoid as he used to be--no longer...
Many individual firms round the country are also feeling the first flush of recovery. In Waltham, Mass., Hewlett-Packard's medical electronics plant reports that orders are up 20% over a year ago, while in Norwood, Mass., Northrop Corp. is expanding its precision products plant to accommodate demand. Officials at Whirlpool Corp. in Michigan report that sales of appliances have been climbing since June...
...School buildings to be built, and Eliot had agreed to pay for three of them, with Harvard footing the bill for the remaining two. Eliot and the architects' effort was designed to put as much expense as possible into the financier's buildings so the considerably less flush University could keep its own costs down...
...royal flush for Fleet Street's sensation seeker, the London Daily Mirror. Princess Anne GETS OBSCENE PHONE CALLS, headlined the paper, disclosing that a devious dialer had uncovered Anne's top-secret number at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, where she and Husband Mark Phillips live. Only two days after the number was changed, reported the Mirror, the off-color caller discovered the new royal connection, resumed his work, and at one point "started to whistle the national anthem" before the princess could hang up. Though Buckingham Palace spokesmen dismissed the business as a simple case...