Word: toileting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands she placed Fingertips with these attachments: complexion brush, hair tonic brush, medicine dropper, eyebrow brush, eyebrow pencil, screw driver, paintbrush, pencil, three-bladed manicure tool and crochet needle. She showed how a man could make a fairly complete toilet without putting anything down or picking anything up, predicted that Fingertip-equipped housewives would find it easier to peel oranges, pit grape fruit, scrape pans. Motion pictures showed how the devices were used for drawing, painting, etching, needlework...
Another convention comment on the Iowa way: "If toilet rooms are not now as clean as they should be, it will be agreed that the condition is well distributed...
Scott Paper, for whose benefit J. Walter Thompson broke down the taboo on toilet paper advertising in the 1920'$, reported nine-months' earnings of $756,442 as against $700,511 a year ago, appeared ready to surpass 1935's full-year profit of $938,574, which was a record...
...this time Schnozzle had completed his toilet and was standing clothed in practically nothing but his nose while he talked about "Red, Hot, and Blue" which he thinks will run for some time on Broadway. "I like to play with Ethel Merman, who wouldn't? And say, if you come to see the show Friday or Saturday, you'll hear her sing one swell song. It's called "In the Depths on the Ninetieth Floor" and is the torch song to replace "Bad Influence...
...walk but to breathe easily. In all his daily activities he now is borne about in a sedan chair, or in his ceremonial sedia gestatoria (portable throne). Near the Benediction Hall, where Pius XI holds audiences, there has been set up behind a red curtain a portable washstand and toilet, with a cabinet containing first-aid medicaments. To this, and presumably to one like it at Castel Gandolfo, the Pope could, in case of an emergency, be rushed by doctors who are always close...