Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loaded him on board a train for Budapest, under guard and shackled with chains. It was a road he had often driven: he knew its grades, its crossings, the country on each side of its right of way. He asked his guard for permission to use the toilet. The guard removed his arm and leg irons, saw him into the small compartment at the car's end, and stood sentinel outside...
Stillman too has its trouble. Miss Corbett and her excellent staff of 15 nurses are making the best of a bad thing. Besides its inconvenient location, the old building has not enough facilities for contagious patients. The private rooms have no running water, and there is, only one toilet a floor. The staff has no access to student's previous records which are in the Hygiene building two miles away, and doors and elevators that won't admit beds are becoming a nuisance...
Hearing a tuberculous man complain that he had to pay 40 francs (80?) a day on medicine, the King pocketed the empty medicine bottle, apparently intending to insure the man a supply. In a 14-family one-toilet tenement, the King stooped under a clothesline to talk to the inhabitants...
...floor. Another snapped handcuffs on him. Cornelius rushed up from the engine room. The pirates covered him as well. Then all the ship's officers and forecastle hands, seven in all, were herded into an 8-ft.-by-10-ft. cabin in the bow. There was no toilet, little air, and before dawn the pirates painted the portholes black...
...years along Manhattan's Ad Alley, hard-driving Duane Jones has been called the "box-top king." Working on such accounts as Bab-O, Sweetheart Toilet Soap and Tetley Tea, he plugged the products by distributing millions of box-top premiums. After he started his own agency ten years ago, Duane Jones Co., Inc.'s billings rose spectacularly, from...