Word: toileting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blasted were electric power, gas, water, telephones. The toilet belched black sewage. But that day the Corbetts, millions like them in 20 cities over England, carried on. Repair crews filled the craters in the streets, restored skeleton public services. Two surgeons in Southampton's hospital performed 230 major operations in seven hours. Corbett dug a trench in his lawn, kicking himself for having laid by no gasproof room for a bomby...
...committee asked no ruralite what his favorite programs were, but each household was asked whether it kept on hand any packaged cereals, coffee, cleanser; canned soup, milk, tomato or fruit juice; wrapped bread, kitchen or toilet soap; toothpaste or powder, face powder, lipstick or rouge. These are prime radio-advertised products. When the report was published the answers to this question were not included. The explanation: "It was believed . . . that pride would tend to inflate the figures of usage, particularly of products like lipstick and rouge, face powder...
Police arrested Dr. Clendening for disturbing the peace, destroying Government property. After four hours in a cell, where he tried to smash the toilet, he was released in $1,000 bail. Cracked a patrolman: "Would you write me a piece some day, doctor, on the best methods of curing the jitters...
Quiet by nature, unobtrusive by preference, Robert Fechner had 'hardly taken hold at CCC before he got into a first-class stink. The Affair of the Toilet Kits in June 1933 concerned a persuasive salesman who got Louis Howe to get Robert Fechner to pay an outrageous price for 200,000 handybags. Although Franklin Roosevelt himself had casually endorsed the salesman, loyal Mr. Fechner took the blows from Congress. That body in 1937 repaid him by cutting his $12,000 salary to $10,000. (Mrs. Norton's bill would restore...
...Board of Management of the western World's Fair long ago determined that there would be no T.T. (Toilet Trouble) at this Exposition. No concessionaires will be in the comfort station business to the discomfort of the visitors...