Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sympathetic in human nature. He has spent most of his life in Bechuanaland, and he joins the Halberdiers with a "vast accumulation of ant-proof boxes, waterproof bundles, strangely shaped, heavily initialed tin trunks and leather cases." As an antiseptic precaution he has his "Thunder Box"-a portable chemical toilet built of oak and brass...
Fraternity players flocked to the field house in answer to the coaches "plea." Retaliation was in order the following year at Cambridge, but two Crimers visited Hanover first to foil the plans. Bombing the Yard with toilet paper, kidnapping some Lampoon "fruits," and dyeing the Charles green were among the abortive projects...
...Under Home Entertaining: "If you have a septic tank or cesspool, you need to explain [to house guests] that . . . facial tissues . . . should not be thrown into the toilet bowl...
What really bothered Employee De Marco, however, were the working conditions. "They had guards on us all the time . . . They went with us when we ate, when we got a drink of water; they even followed us into the toilet . . . One of the guards could talk English pretty good. He always used to say we shouldn't take offense. This guarding wasn't personal, he said. He used to say, 'We can't trust no one, not even ourselves...
With creams, unguents, sprays, scented waters, chlorophyll tablets and electronically-treated toilet tissues, the U.S. relentlessly wars on the odors of nature. This preoccupation with the olfactible has made social outcasts of millions who are, in the language of the ads, not dainty, including Li'l Abner's Moonbeam McSwine. The latest victim is a town-probably at the moment the most deeply disgraced town in the U.S. For, like Moonbeam McSwine, Secaucus, N.J. (pop. 9,750 people and 75,000 pigs...