Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentence 'Shall we wear evening dress?' would not be possible, the appropriate expression being 'Are we going to change?' "To answer the salutation "How d'you do?" with "Quite well, thank you" is as non-U as saying ill, mirror, notepaper, radio, serviette, toilet-paper, wealthy and lounges for the U words sick, lookingglass, writing paper, wireless, table-napkin, lavatory-paper, rich and halls. The U reply...
...Guillant and assistants dutifully took note of all this, as well as of the complaint that operators must ask permission of their supervisors to go to the toilet, with the "round trip" restricted to five minutes. They found essentially the same symptoms in all telephonistes, regardless of their living conditions or other background factors. Concluded the doctors: "It's their work which seems to be essentially responsible...
...toilet training to "play with peers," are solidly rooted in Freud's concepts. In nursery schools, self-expression owes almost all to Freud. Picking a vocation or choosing a college course, countless U.S. youths, submit themselves to aptitude tests and other psychological gimmicks based on Freudian interpretation of personality structure; e.g., the Rorschach inkblot tests may reveal hidden hostilities which would make a career as a sales man unprofitable, or dependency yearnings which would bar promotion as a foreman or executive. A.firm of consultants is doing big business providing psychologists to industry. Its biggest client: Chicago's case...
...described by an admirer as "a whore, sir, much sought after by fast young swells." The public knew her as "Skittles," and her rich patrons called her "Skitsie." As "the self-crowned queen of mid-Victorian harlotry," she maintained herself in London in such magnificence that the toilet seat in her bathroom was upholstered in swansdown. She was one of the most accomplished horsewomen of the time, was among the first to become proficient in the sport of roller skating (newly imported from America), had the Prince of Wales at her Sunday afternoon parties. Lord Kitchener, with his splendid mustachios...
Last month the city council got a sharp letter from the government listing "complaints" allegedly made by visitors shocked by the lack of segregated facilities in Cape Town and insisting on apartheid. Grudgingly, the city ran a few trial Jim Crow buses and set up a Jim Crow public toilet on a main street. Protested a nonwhite city councilman: "Why do we do these terrible things at the mere hint of pressure from the Nationalists?" Last week the pressure became more than a hint. In the face of new threats from the provincial governor to act if the city...