Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to God. At 17 she met her first Americans, some engineers. When one of them explained the meaning of "toilet paper" to her, she was incredulous. " 'What do they do with their newspapers?' I asked myself." When the secret police found out that she was picking up both American friends and the English language, they asked her a personal question: Would she spy, "for her country," on all the people she knew? Panicky, Tanya eloped with a Russian movie cameraman she scarcely knew, in order to get out of town. The marriage dragged on for awhile...
Diapers & Antibiotics. As for the children, "there is a current impression that the diaper service takes complete charge of children until they are toilet trained, and the television set takes over from there on in." Since she obviously has nothing to do, Groggle feels that his wife should pack the combined sex appeal "of Lana Turner, Merle Oberon, his mother in a tinted tintype at eighteen, the latest magazine cover girl, and Miss Rheingold...
...develop a feeding rhythm of his own takes more judgment than feeding him at set intervals. But it's much easier than having an unhappy baby ... A baby's hunger is the best clock to go by." Also down the drain are the old, rigid schedules of toilet training...
...Salteena did not have an egg for his brekfast in case he should be sick on the jorney." While Ethel dabbed "red ruge" on her cheeks ("I am very pale owing to the drains in this house"), Mr. Salteena ran upstairs and "silently put 2/6 on the dirty toilet cover" for Rosalind, the housemaid...
...Jimmy threw his bike into the orchestra pit-and had to promise in writing not to throw anything at musicians again. A pompous ad extolling the uses of wood in modern life inspired his famous "Wood Number." Rushing wildly through a nightclub, Jimmy would tear up wall moldings and toilet seats, grab salad bowls and meat blocks to make a huge pile of trophies in mid-floor, while he chanted the glories of wood...