Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squad sailed for Tahiti in the South Sea Islands to make a picture. In the squad were that frazzled lover, Monte Blue, and a 20-year-old Mexican girl named Raquel Torres. At Tahiti, the squad got natives to fill out the cast, paid them with canned salmon, flour, toilet water, shaving cream, mirrors. Everybody might have enjoyed a good time, had it not been for the rain and the heat, which combined to produce a disease called rain-tan. Even when it did not rain, there was so much moisture in the air that clothes became soaking...
...pages of such magazines as the Cosmopolitan (Hearst) seem almost exclusively devoted to cosmetics. Every small town has its beauty specialist, its "parlors," where creams and lotions, pastes, lipsticks, rouges, powders are on sale. As an industry, cosmetics making has all the modern paraphernalia. It has its trade papers (Toilet Requisites, Toilet Goods Economist), its federal supervision (no health-destroying chemicals), its radio programs (Gimbel Bros. Station WGBS...
Rouge, powder, lipstick were sponsored as simples for sanity, last week, by Dr. Edgar George Thomssen at the 34th annual convention of the American manufacturers of toilet articles, at Atlantic City, N. J. An approving audience heard about insane women led back to lucid normality by being given cosmetics to play with. Those more scientifically-minded pointed to the fact that if during the deep depressions and maniac excitements of insanity, patients are oblivious of their appearance, become dirty, disorderly, slovenly when left to themselves, they would be equally oblivious of the daintiest creams and cosmetics. Only when the psychotic...
...food box but no food. After a while, the food box was removed to a distant corner. Red and blue cards kept flashing before Old Lady's eyes. When the blue card flashed, Old Lady gazed at it in polite boredom and went on quietly with her toilet. They couldn't fool her. But when the blue card disappeared and the red card showed, Old Lady's eyes gleamed. She swung herself from her perch, rushed down the ladder with unladylike haste and made for the food box in the corner...
...state prison at Wethersfield, Conn., is better than most. It is strikingly clean and kept in good repair by the inmates. Each cell has individual toilet facilities and a catalogue of the prison library of 5,000 volumes. There is also a baseball field, a brass band, a monthly newspaper of which Sheriff Simeon Pease is inordinately proud. Last week, two newspapermen took up residence behind Wethersfield walls, were forthwith made editors of the prison paper. Their flamboyant history led the inmates to anticipate a paper that would be edited with imagination, gusto, craftiness...