Word: toileting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inside, Roomette cars have 18 sleeping quarters, nine on each side of the corridor, and a porter's service compartment. Across one end of each roomette is a double seat with a folding arm rest. In an opposite corner is a toilet. Concealed in one wall are washstand and wardrobe. At night a bed 6 ft. 5 in. by 2 ft. 8 in. lets down from a 10 in. recess in the wall back of the seat, rests one end on part of the toilet (see cut). Over the single window is a Venetian blind. Because everything except...
...their only child. By the time her memories begin, her mother was well launched on a career of making married life interesting. "How my mother puzzled me, and how I loved her!" she declares. Recklessly extravagant in gaudy gimcracks, her mother saved wrapping paper and string, wrote letters on toilet paper. When she got a fresh air mania, she propped open all the doors, ate outdoors, snow notwithstanding. War came "as a personal insult." Her own War service consisted of taking in five wounded Belgians, whom she quickly turned out again as spies because they bored her. When her husband...
...toilet bowl which curves upward at the back, to conform to the natural contours of the body...
...detailed record of the children's conduct: "The Quints are practically ignorant of life lived by other people, except for rare visits to the hospital kitchen which is a great treat. . . . They were slow to learn bladder control because five commodes on the veranda made going to the toilet a social treat...
...Uses classified: World. 92% laundry soap; U. S. 85% laundry soap, 12% toilet soap, 3% miscellaneous...