Word: restroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Always Darkest. In Catlettsburg, Ky., Police Chief Ray Castle came to work, found a note from the lobster shift: "Ray, the radio in the police car won't work. The lights in the men's restroom are out. Sewer on 34th St. stopped up. The town clock is 7 minutes slow, and payday is past due 10 days...
...House, Hilda Marks lit a small fire in a fourth floor library: less than an hour later she had two more going in lavatories-all three were small, and none caused damage. But they drew a brigade of police; as Hilda started a fifth fire in a second floor restroom, a woman detective nabbed...
...Herbert Gurnee was assigned a classroom for his summer psychology lectures, looked the room over, penned a note to the dean: "Room 103 is too small . . . poorly lighted . . . besides, there'll be too much traffic through it to conduct classes properly," since 103 was the men's restroom...
Oversight. In Stevens Point, Wis., during a stop for gas, Mrs. Robert Benson slipped out of the back seat to visit the restroom, and her husband drove on for 93 miles before discovering she wasn...