Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many students as any of the present undergraduate Houses, the Provost said that a much more modest scale of living would be offered the graduate student. One-room units will be standard, with enough room for bed, armchair, desk, closet, and a washbowl in each. Common showering and toilet facilities are envisaged for the projected structure...
...rooms and a bath is the standard student apartment-two rooms complete with a fireplace each; and a bath complete with a tub measuring 3 1-2 feet in length, an old-fashioned pull-chain toilet, and a marble washstand. Paul Miller '46 and his wife, Marjorie, have one of the few suites which is equipped with a shower. Necessarily, too, claims Miller, who measures 6 feet-seven, a height which Brunswick tubs were obviously not designed to accommodate...
Sometimes you didn't even have to pay extra. In towns where toilet paper was short it was only necessary to haunt hotel washrooms to get a pocketful of the stuff. Housewives in New York's suburban Westchester County maintained espionage networks, reporting to each other the arrival of chain-store trucks, and got first grab. Although it was always correct to tip, when in doubt, it was often possible to become a preferred customer simply by beaming at the high prices. And if you knew the right man in the right line anything was possible...
Thomas E. Dewey ran into an embarrassing shortage problem last week. A year ago, the sympathetic Tacoma (Wash.) Athletic Commission found the Governor a hard-to-get toilet seat for the Executive Mansion, sent it to him posthaste. But now the commissioners, building new quarters, were confronted with an identical shortage. Red-faced but resolute, they sent for their toilet seat...
...Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari. Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest editions--a collectors' item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meerschaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," a pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming...