Word: toaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps there is a weakness in the Harvard man as a democrat, by a repressed desire for the attentions of body servants. The Yale Toaster guaranteed not to burn the bread, realized it when he said that a Harvard man never sees his janitor except when he comes home in the morning to find him shining his shoes. But if he never sees his janitor and tasted disappointment in the dormitory hotel, which never know a luxurious fulfillment, Massachusetts Avenue still provides him with compensations. One regrats that McKinlock denied the Englishmen acquaintance with those knights in shining armor...
...stop or start it. The tube can be attached, not merely to a washing machine, but to any household utility. The shadow of a housewife's hand while she waves goodby to her husband in the morning, will start the dishwasher, the electric iron; turn off the toaster. More than that, predicted Inventor Zworykin, the rays of the rising sun falling on a single Zworykin tube will shut the bedroom windows, start the coffee percolator, light the furnace, turn on the water in the bathtub, let out the dog, while the household snores abed...