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...mental patients, make its externals pleasing to the eye. But any Oregonian who knows enough to make comparisons is shocked by the interior of this mid-Victorian (1883) Bedlam. Its 3,000 patients are 1,000 more than facilities properly can care for. Two toilets, seatless and of vintage unknown, must serve 60 men; 62 women share one metal wash basin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death by Fluoride | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

During the recent "freak" Canadian election, that jovial Liberal, Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, was astonished to find himself defeated for his own seat in the Canadian House of Commons (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq). He incurred the contemptuous nickname of "Seatless Mac" from his delighted Conservative enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Mr. King of Canada | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...incurred for himself the nickname "Seatless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

During the progress of this harangue an amiable, stockily built individual was observed to be smiling placidly upon the House from the "Visitors' Gallery." It was "Seatless Mac," Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: In Canada | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...converged upon a small, ill-favored church in the centre of the block flanked by apartment buildings- St. Nicholas Cathedral (mother church of all Russian Orthodox faithful in North America) which faintly reflects the Slavic splendor by its six cupolas above, and by ugly ikons and a seatless rotunda within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Nicholas | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

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