Word: porcellain
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Besides doing the carpentry, the wiring, the painting, the plumbing, and the heating work on the units, the Federal Public Housing Authority throws in with each home a jade-green plastic shower curtain, an ice-box, a porcellain towel rack, an aluminum mailbox, and a two-plate electric stove complete with oven. Everything else is up to the individual, but the University has a limited amount of furniture available for rental...
...prospered in the East India trade, he went to Groton, where he was a Big Man, and to Harvard where he got his degree in three years. His muscular 6-ft.-2-in. frame bent an oar in the varsity crew and he became a member of the exclusive Porcellain Club. After graduation he went to work for the conservative old Boston banking house of Kidder, Peabody...
...admire some "he-man" thrashing through the snow at six and a half miles an hour; and quite another to go out and do it as a steady diet. The state of nature is one state permanently barred from the union by common consent. There are too many porcellain bath-tubs and safety-razors in the world today to make primitive life attractive for any length of time to the overwhelming majority of people. Old Adam, senior, alive today, would be the last man to think of living as he was created, battling black flies for an existence, because...
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