Word: toileting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where it couples with the automobile. Inside, it is as compactly luxurious as the cabin of a small cruiser. A 14-footer may have three davenports which convert into beds, a stove, icebox, sink, large closets, table. A 20-footer may have two rooms, shower, chemical toilet, desk, chairs, breakfast nook. All sizes are neatly outfitted, with wood veneer on the walls, linoleum or rugs on the floor. All have running water, insulation, electric light, heat. Cost for factory-built models ranges from $400 to $1,200. The more expensive models this year are outselling the cheap ones three...
...were its inmates. All had been thrice convicted, mostly for sex offenses. Twenty-six of the girls were syphilitic and practically all of them had gonorrhea. There was no full-time doctor in attendance. The girls lived in locked cells on unlighted brick corridors, with only one toilet and one bathtub (with no hot water) for every 16 girls. One delinquent had her illegitimate baby in her cell. All of them ate in the kitchen where the laundry was hung to dry. The only training was doing the School's chores...
...Honeymoon is concerned with the love of a U. S. Senator for a bubble dancer. Sole innovation afforded by this antique farce is the realistic offstage flush of a toilet, which reveals to the amorous statesman that his sweetheart is entertaining another gentleman in her boudoir...
...came home from the World War, I have seen families of soldiers and civilian employes of the Army living under conditions worse than anything I saw among the Belgian refugees. ... In one case, at Omaha, as late as 1929 there were 16 families with only one bathhouse and toilet among them. Women on one side and men on the other, not even a suitable partition for privacy between the occupants of the different sides...
...traveling belts on which the jars of powder and perfume rode from worker to worker, floor to floor, particularly fascinated her. "Our women," she said, "can afford to pay as much for cosmetics as American women. Even our men are shaving more regularly and taking up the use of toilet water...