Word: toileting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmy Munroe, leader of the Lowell band which made noisy appearances all over Cambridge and vicinity Tuesday, has enough trouble in managing his toilet-plunger baton without having dissension in the ranks of his followers...
...visiting foreign-Germans, Stuttgart wore her party dress as all Nazi departments cooperated to give the town an air of plenty. Juicy hams, butter, thick Württemberg sausage spread themselves in butcher-shop windows. The rigid foreign exchange decrees of Reichsbanker Schacht were tossed aside to allow foreign toilet articles and cosmetics to be stocked by Stuttgart drugstores...
...About the copyright] "This is a lovely question. . . . The reason the book was copyrighted by Sol Bloom is that the Government is not permitted to copyright anything. ... I did not want any cheap life-insurance companies or toilet-soap companies to take this book and use it for advertising purposes...
...looked like schoolteachers. Under the withering catechism of Author Walter De La Mare, Madame Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart-horses and Simpson's beef-steak." * The worst example of English bad taste she found in her hotel lavatory, where the toilet-paper was stamped with an advertisement showing "a lovely little child's face." Peering through heavy bars at the British crown in the Tower of London, she wished that she could be in the crown's place looking out at the acquisitive expression on the faces...
Under the press of Depression, the Installment Plan was asked to move a type of merchandise which could not be repossessed or was worn out before it was paid for. Among credit men this merchandise has the name "soft goods." Department store installments may cover anything from tires to toilet articles. Oddest use of installment selling is for services, ranging from steamship passage to permanent waves...