Word: toileting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...praise a child when he uses the toilet, lest he feel guilty when he fails...
...great majority of Germans have always washed themselves with laundry soap-toilet soap in the Reich can now be sold only for the use of babies and physicians-but last week even laundry soap was hard to get. Housewives were advised to soak potato peelings in water, use the resulting mess as soap. Discovery that cellulose, used in making explosives, can be produced from discarded potato tops was announced in Berlin last week, caused the price of potato tops, hitherto not marketed but thrown away, to rise in Germany...
...portable toilet to be attached to the rear ends of urban dogs...
...supper. Radio Normandie has a snug little building around a corner from BBC's showy (and now sandbagged) Broadcasting House. Like everybody else in London, Radio Normandie's outpost dug in, fitted up a sub-basement air-raid shelter complete with telephones, desks, transcription machinery, eating, sleeping, toilet facilities for its staff of 200; a phonograph for dull hours...
...mustached, punctiliously correct Viscount Hambleden, grandson of an office boy who was adopted by the first Smith's son. The present Lord Hambleden is religious, pacifistic, nervous. Last month three raffish young British pilots drew indefinite suspensions from the Royal Air Force after they had released streamers of toilet paper over his Thames Bank estate...