Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian newspaper readers, Madame Molotov's attempt to make soap from frog fat was a surefire joke. So was her 1936 visit (as Olga Karpovskaya) to New York and Washington, where she lunched with Eleanor Roosevelt and announced that Soviet men had gone back to using toilet water. The Pearl was soon promoted to the Ministry of Food Industry, Division of Fish. Years later, having thoroughly proved her incompetence, she was fired by a rising young party boss named Georgy Malenkov. "The crux of the matter," Stalin is said to have remarked, "is that too many fish are swimming...
Stephen, aged three, kept his parents in a frenzy by waking them at 5:3O every morning and, despite punishment, using any room in the house as a toilet. In a counseling session, Stephen was asked: "You're the boss, aren...
...Stockholm. To get permission to make the trip, Fardal concocted an elaborate ruse. About a year earlier, he had become the Danish representative for a paper mill in Gothenburg, Sweden. So he arranged surreptitiously to have this firm send him a letter offering to ship a large quantity of toilet paper, then badly needed in Denmark. On the strength of this offer, the Nazis permitted him to go to Sweden...
...salon. Although she has made an estimated $30 million as beauty's handmaiden, she still feels her selling needs constant rejuvenating. She noticed that the woman customer frequently bought two jars of cream-one for her husband. So she began a line of men's cosmetics and toilet goods named after her husband. With her new plant, she plans to expand Gourielli production (which now includes some items for women), is certain that men cannot get along without such products as her brushless shaving cream. It contains "amazing active ozone [releasing] vital oxygen . . . beneficial to tender skin...
Bucky invented a series of Dymaxion bathrooms which were excellently designed, but demanded a great deal of their occupants. "Damn it," said an eminent architectural friend of Bucky's, "Bucky thinks people ought to get weighed while sitting on the toilet seat, brushing their teeth with a cake of soap and taking a shower from a fog-gun." An evil light came into the eminent architectural eye. "But I ainta gonta," he said. "I just ainta gonta...