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...Partitions will fold aside so that several rooms can be made into one for day travel. Beds, and practically everything else not needed during the day, will fold into wall space to make room for comfortable chairs and lounges. Smart dressing-table tops will cover lavatories and plumbing. Shower baths will be installed in bedrooms...
...plush and ornate carving, a bucktoothed, bespectacled Japanese girl helped a U.S. sergeant allot rooms to U.S. brass. The manager was in a managerial frenzy lest the food and service be anything less than perfect. Houseboys brought cold bottles of beer and urged U.S. officers to drink their beer, shower, and not to be late for dinner. A sign on a factory roof, said: "Three cheers for the U.S. Navy and Army...
...reclaimed fjader, Hägg said after the race that the four-minute mile was no longer a problem: "I believe I could have done it today if there had been more competition." Then, to prove he had plenty left, he sprinted an extra lap in a triumphal shower of torn programs...
...naked dead bodies, all of them emaciated. We went on around this building and came to the central crematory. The rooms here, in order, were: 1) the office where the living and the dead were passed through and where all their clothing was stripped from them; 2) the Brausebad (shower) room, where the victims were gassed; and 3) the crematory. In the crematory were two large furnaces. Before the two furnaces were hooks and pulleys on rafters above them. Here, according to a number of Frenchmen, the SS men often hanged prisoners by the necks or by the thumbs...
During her twelve years in the White House. Eleanor Roosevelt had enjoyed dozens of small, domestic triumphs. She had vanquished the rats, hardy rodents whose forebears had scuttled through the walls since U.S. Grant's day. Under her supervision rusty drains had been replaced, dumbwaiters installed, glass shower stalls set up in the old-fashioned bathrooms. Last week she wrote for her column: "I always have a pride in the beauty of the rooms. . . . Yesterday I took Mrs. Truman all through the house. It was good to find [her] so appreciative of the things I have loved...