Word: toileting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clients. Brilliant, with a phenomenal memory, Cartland had supported himself and widowed mother through his cheating service. With the aid of pass keys and confederates he had pirated many an examination from professors' rooms, sold questions and answers at fixed prices. Failing this, he stationed himself in a toilet near the examination room. Students took their questions to him there, bought answers. Early last week, with evidence in hand, Student President Jack Pool and seven fellow investigators retired to a dormitory room, locked the door, drew the shades. While the campus buzzed with rumor, they worked day & night checking...
...heart this morning for some scoundrel did ring me at five saying: "Good morning, Sir. Early Rising Bureau calling. Hope you did sleep well. Good morning, Sir!" And this would continue every quarter hour until chimes went six. Whereupon, sleep from me, I did complete a hasty toilet and thence to review some notings in economics. But soon my eyes did turn to two little sparrows on the window-sill, frequent visitors, who did fight most unlady-like over a crust of bread. And I thought to myself: "Stupid creatures. Know ye not economics: Divide, cooperate; and be happy...
Miss Hayes continues to model her impersonation of Victoria with sure dramatic strokes when, after her marriage to the tall and handsome Albert, she sees him at his toilet for the first time. "Oh-h-h!" she cries, breathless at the wonder of her maidenly discovery, "you're shaving!" Not even the quiet resolution of punctilious Albert prevents her from embracing him before an open palace window, an act of domestic abandon evocative of certain tender moments in the cinema version of A Farewell to Arms...
...down on the floor, keep his mouth shut. Passing down a narrow hall, the pair came to a rear dining room where three other men were seated around a table under an orange light. The two intruders jerked out revolvers, began to blaze away. The door of an adjoining toilet inched open. The gunmen sent one shot through it, turned, ran. The man in the toilet staggered out, made his way up the hall...
Some words Carol knows: lemonade, candy, ice, cream, lollypop, cigar, cigaret, tobacco, pants, pajamas, locust, katydid, Mae West, come, up, see, me, some, time, buzz, rhumba, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, seventeen, hippopotamus, lavatory, belch, sneeze, Jesus, pop, eye, goofy, flush, toilet, groceries, fruit, nuts, nertz...