Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invective, Semple stirred up a diplomatic storm in 1938 by referring to Hitler and Mussolini as "mad dogs," once defended himself against a charge that he was making unfair profits out of Australian building interests by commenting: "I haven't enough assets in Australia to build a toilet for a cockroach...
...reformatory, demanded that Superintendent Jaffa Miller show him the jail, where he had been told that boys were kept on bread and water for days at a stretch. The jail proved to be filthy, airless cells, one containing three emaciated teen-agers stripped to the waist. There was no toilet (only an uncovered pot), and the boys spread their blankets on the concrete floor to shield their bare feet from the cold...
Steinberg was born 40 years ago near Bucharest. His father manufactured fancy boxes for toilet articles and his mother made cakes with elaborate icings that he recalls, were "too beautiful to eat." Steinberg spent seven years studying architecture in Milan before finally giving in to his own inherited taste for lighthearted art. He found it no work at all to whip up drawings that were usually biting, and sometimes skirted close to the beautiful as well. Commissions for The New Yorker helped bring him to Manhattan...
...only planks; the only light came through small, high windows that they were forbidden to look out of. They never saw each other, were not even sure whether the others were alive. The only time that they were ever out of their cells, except for escorted trips to the toilet, was for questioning...
...anyone else read it. Instead, he went to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who warned Winchell that if he printed the document the FBI would be obliged to arrest him. About eight or ten days later, Winchell testified, he burned the document and flushed it down a hotel toilet like the good, security-conscious naval officer he is (Lieut. Commander, U.S.N.R...