Word: slop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Hitz did well in the part of the young bride. The dinner party scene, when the cook fails to appear and inadvertently revealed business secrets slop about with poisonous cocktails, found her really seeming the worried young rewlywed she was supposed to be. At times one could imagine her writing to Beatrice Fairfax for advice
With a slip, slap, slop...
Your editorial finds fault with the airshaft, but fails to advance any reason why there should be no airshaft. Obviously an airshaft is a vital necessity, and what in the face of rain and snow, is less strange than that it should be covered? "Drinking fountains in the slop sinks" is a nasty phrase. yet only a phrase, since, after an inspection, it is noted that, like other drinking fountains, these are placed above sanitary basins to receive the superfluous water. "Mention might be made of the toilets, the lighting, and ventilation in general", but you do not make...
...unprejudiced that Holyoke House deserves this title. For instance, nine bedrooms and one toilet on a single covered airshaft contribute to form a not altogether pleasant feature. Or if this is insufficient to attract the average person let him take note of the drinking fountains in the slop sinks. In addition, mention might be made of the toilets, the lighting, and ventilation in general, but unfortunately (or fortunately) there is not room for the details; as a matter of fact the mere specification of the various objectionable features of the hall fills three closely written pages...