Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans included bombing the Yard with toilet paper, kidnapping two or three Lampoon "fruits," and dressing an entire bogus Crimson football team which was to have taken the field just as the Band ended its half-time act, and dyeing the Charles River green...
...putty . . . Buy diamonds with cash from Cartier's-when I want to sell a hot one show the receipt . . . Dogs love the smell and taste of cinnamon . . . Scotch Tape stuck on a pane of frosted glass enables one to see through, but not out . . . use bulb in toilet bowl to hide diamonds . . . Leave phony overcoat button at scene...
Thus began the career of W. C. Fields. He slept, successively, in a hole in the ground, a forge, a bran trough in a livery stable, a barrel and a saloon toilet. To eat, he scavenged saloons and stole. Backsliding into respectability, he lived for a while with his grandmother, who made him get a job as a store "cash boy"-a trying occupation for a boy as sorely tempted as Fields was. Then, at the age of 14, he became a juggler in an amusement park. After that, his only work was to make people laugh...
Among the exhibits, however, there were still a few pieces to startle conservatives. Charles Eames's canvas-and-plastic chair with ventilated seat looked for all the world like an atomic-age version of a toilet seat. Florence Knoll's immense, pancake-thin air-foam bed, perched on spindly legs, had an insubstantial look that suggested uneasy napping. And too often, for all their inexpensive materials and simplified design, even the most agreable modern furnishings were higher-priced than the overdecorated, overstuffed period pieces most Americans are used...
...portraits of well-fed merchant princes and other secular heroes, like the shrewd-eyed, poker-straight Doge Leonardo Loredano, resplendent in gold brocade and carved buttons, registered the pride and self-possession of the Renaissance itself. The work of Bellini's last years, in such paintings as the Toilet of Venus and Feast of the Gods, anticipated the frank delight in the human form which filled the canvasses of his two greatest pupils, Giorgione and Titian...