Word: shower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swingle Singers' musical idiom is onomatopoeia, otherwise known in the trade as scat. Scat is like baby talk with a beat and is as old as singing in the shower. Rendered by a jazz stylist like Ella Fitzgerald, who reels off such breathless improvisations in Flying Home as "oodla-oodlee-ooblee-day-lay do-dee-a-din-doi-oodlay-a-din-doi-danzoit-boy-hem," scat can be a highly refined...
...sometime in his junior or senior year he develops an insatiable craving for high school culture. Oddly, he is most often one who despised that way of life as a high school senior. But suddenly, having always hated rock 'n' roll, he finds himself singing surf songs in the shower, going to drive-in movies, to Saturday night "Y" dances, bowling, and travelling out with the boys for a big hairy pizza afterwards. Graduation almost upon him, he undergoes a painful nostalgia for the days he racked up A's with short essays on "My Dog," "What I did last...
...cops entered the room, walked past two adjoining pay toilets and up four narrow steps leading to a shower room that has been padlocked for ten years...
Drouillard and Graham had a key to the lock. They entered the shower room and stationed themselves at two peepholes in the door that gave them a view of the washroom and enabled them to peep over the toilet partitions. (There are two peepholes in this and several other washrooms in the area because two corroborating officers are required in such cases.) On that night the cops spotted Jenkins in a pay toilet with Andy Choka, 60, a Hungarian-born veteran of the U.S. Army who lives in Washington's Soldiers' Home. Jenkins' back partly obstructed...
...also showed up all kinds of other complaints about life in Delhi. Newspapers were flooded with complaints. One letter writer denounced "this over-monumented and under-bathroomed city [where] in the hottest hours of the day there is no water for a shower and the electricity comes and goes as if monkeys were playing with the switches." Wrote another: "I am haunted by ghosts of corruption, high prices, high rents, adulteration in everything. There's no fresh bread to eat, no safe water to drink, no sugar to remove the unsavory taste from my mouth. The whole city...